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TLDR: I wrote one of my firsts codes to help my father. Was really excited after it worked, nobody cared. F*ck them (not really).

So my father comes and says he needs me to help making a simple presentation. Just a title and slides with images. It seemed to be an easy task so I'm like "sure, why not?". So I told him to email the images and I would have the presentation made in no time. The next day I recieve like 30 mails containing from 4 to 10 photos of boats (yes, boats). I stay chill and have the brilliant idea of automating the process with python, just to learn a bit more.

I took some to read the documentation of the modules I was going to use, then write a simple code and bam! In 3 hours I have a presentation with images in it. I open it, every image was 4 times the actual slide and all of the images were randomly rotated, it still was the most rewarding moment I've had in months :') I wanted to show it off to my brothers, so they came to my desktop, saw it and all I recieve was a "cool". Not a good "cool", a "meh" kind of "cool". So I thought it was because of the size bug.

Fastfoward some hours, now every image gets scaled into the slides prefectly, in the correct angle, etc. I tell my dad what I made and he says "yeah sure, the problem is that I need you to give them to have subtitles". He wasn't even impressed. My heart hurt a bit.

I could totally automate the subtitles too (and did it), but what hurt the most is that nobody cared for what I was so pationate about. I'm so fascinated with coding that it replaced all my gaming habits, and now all I do is learn. I want to dedicate a good portion of my life to this but at that moment it seemed nobody in my family cared about it. So this rant is for all those f*ckers that I love but don't know how much my code means to me.

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  • 8
    Don't worry about it. At least you gained some new skills, bro!
    And, welcome to devRant, I hope you like it here!
  • 15
    I did stuff like this in high school and no one cares but for me it was just a learning experience.

    I made an OpenGL app that shot off fireworks for someone's birthday. They were 'meh' but I found it really exciting and loved learning about how to do all the particle effects and optimising GL calls.
  • 11
    I know this feeling.. Non-techy people often fail to be impressed by programmers and their job...
    BTW: do you provide the code you've written? I'm learning Python atm and I'd love to see such a great implementation as I am impressed by your work :)
  • 3
    Sound like a nice project! Any git link to it?
  • 2
    Muggles never understand us.
  • 1
    Just imagine someone really passionate about household economics showing you how they manage to pull off a difficult week. That's how they feel. Find people that feel similar to you about code!
  • 0
    You can always come here with accomplishments.
    We understand what you did and that its awesome
  • 0
    Lol, I'm not sure why I did it. @-c--
  • 1
    Thanks :') @zombie01
  • 0
    Yeah you may be right. There's still some muggles that understand it. I had a friend that had a great reaction after I made him a Twitch chat bot. And also there's my gf, which even though doesn't understand anything, is pretty supportive. @siksik
  • 2
    Of course! I'm not at home right now, but I have a past version of the code in my notebook (images still get rotated). I'll upload it to github when I get some time later. It could be fun to see how you guys solve the rotation problem. @wholl0p @krlooss
  • 0
    That's an amazing skill set you gained....idk why are you dad...
  • 0
    @DVZ96 that would be awesome :)
  • 2
    https://github.com/DanielVZ96/...
    Here's the code with the rotation bug. Have fun :)
    @wholl0p @krlooss
  • 0
    @DVZ96 that's great to know, keep it up!
  • 0
    it's not so muchthat noone cares as it's more that they have no idea there's anything to care about. for tgem, as soon as it involves computers it's magic that gets done by itself. you're showing people result of several hours of coding and all they see is "a powerpoint that tge computer made, why are you so happy about it?"

    find someone who understands, otherwise it's going to be very lonely.
  • 0
    Hey, just a small heads-up, *passionate, not pationate. Just for the future ;)

    Also, I think that's awesome. In which filetype were those slides?
  • 1
    @filthyranter the extension is pptx. That's what you're asking right?
  • 0
    @DVZ96 Exactly, yes. It suprises me that it wasn't ODP.
  • 0
    @DVZ96 Downloaded and tested, I've got no weird rotation bug on the generated slideshow. tested with 25 jpg and png mixed, and originally they are both portrait and landscape. scandinavian.py works like a charm
  • 0
    @krlooss yeah, yesterday I noticed it was the images. Lol.
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