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> If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way.

If someone asks for help and this is the first thing you say, you're already thinking about it the wrong way.

What is their background? Their aptitude? Why do they want to learn? How do they learn best? Are their expectations reasonable? In short, what would be the smartest way to help this individual? One suboptimal way is to post essentially a multi-paragraph lmgtfy and assume that everybody will hound down the knowledge they need with the same geeky obsessiveness you would.

Edit: I meant to mention that remark about getting a Mac. "Embarrassed" to have considered anything else? I'm a big Mac fan (Cocoa developer) but that is ridiculous enough that I'm tempted to see the whole post as a joke.