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It ultimately depends on your personality. You might be the kind of person that can learn C the hard way (http://c.learncodethehardway.org/). But on the other hand, if you're anything like me (Myers-Briggs personality type ENTP) that is not an option, because it's so mind-bogglingly boring and slow that it's incomprehensible to you why anyone would put themselves through the shit that is pointer arithmetic, and if someone ever tries to teach you THAT again you will punch them in the face, in very justified self defense.I love programming very much and have been coding since my teens, and professionally for the last 8 years, but my definition of coding is this:http://instagr.am/p/Khaorxv5wD/The above picture was taken today - the guy on the right is me, and together with Jonas Grimfelt on the left, I'm in the middle of a hackathon competition where we launched a completely new cooking-related product in under 10 hours. It's about results, speed, fun and creativity, intensity and creating real, useful things for real people. Coding in this way is natural to me, because the way of working reminds of how you work in a movie production (my formal education is theatre) while a lot of people in the business still try to mimic building construction.http://instagr.am/p/KhTdu5KXAz/I belong to a new, quirky breed of geek, that has been allowed to survive due to preconditions that did not exist 15 years ago. I'm not a computer scientist. I cannot learn from theory, I must learn by doing. I'm as much right-brained as I'm left brained. I cannot stand vim or emacs because the margins are fucked up and prefer Sublime. I enjoy the wind in my hair as I blaze ahead with Ruby on Rails or Meteor (http://meteor.com) and I only kind of know half of the formal data structures, and most of them I crudely formed on my own before learning their formal compsci names, years later.I'm a pretty goddamn good coder, but I'll never reach guru-grokkery in binary tree search, terminal commands and emacs shortcuts. To me, the guys that do this are the computer geek equivalent of this:I.e. While I appreciate and admire the discipline and dedication that it takes to get to that point of mastery (and on bad days they make me feel like I need to build more muscle), but I'm just not able to stick to a vertical for long enough to get to that level, nor do I feel a proper desire to do so.Instead, I know shitloads of things because I'm a euphoric goldfish when it comes to learning new stuff (the new thing I've discovered is always the best thing evah!) As a result, I not only know a crapton of different programming languages - I also know quite a bit of business economics, video production, script writing, can design pretty wicked apps in Photoshop and knows how to import plush toys from china.Try to find an approach to programming that works for you. There are people that will say that there is a right way and a wrong way, and perhaps that used to be true, but I don't think it applies any longer. Today, you can start learning programming by coding Lua your bloody iPad:Or by coding games in Unity3D:Or building and programming robots:I don't mean to imply that there isn't a lot of theory and good practices in software development that you need to learn. There truly is, but fuck starting out with that. Programming is beautiful, creative, fun and magical, and there will be plenty, plenty of time in your career as a programmer to dive into the less magical nuances later, so start out with whatever excites you, because that will power your interest, which is, in the end, the single most important trait needed to learn programming. Coding is an enormously vast field and cannot be absorbed through sheer discipline - you need to feel love for it to become a great developer.All that said, you can't really go wrong with Python, it's fuck-yea-good.Shameless plug: If you like my ramblings about programming on Quora, you might enjoy my YouTube show: Fun Fun Function

Usually the first thing a client says to us is, “I’d like to do a video about this-and-that.” The second thing they typically say is, “So – what do we do?”I LOVE this question. It gives me the opportunity to educate our new clients about the video production process.Usually at the end of our conversation, they walk away having learned something they never knew before. But more importantly, they leave empowered.They realize they can be knowledgeable, fully-informed partners in the video creation process, rather than handing all control over to us and staying in the dark about what we do and how we do it.The Video Production ProcessStep 1: Information GatheringOnce we know what the topic of a video is, we launch into interview mode with the client, to help us get a sense of the type of project we’re talking about: Who’s the audience? Is it a training, educational, marketing video – or something else? Where will the video be shown? What’s the end goal of the video? Usually with just these 4 questions, we are able to hone in the category the video fits into, and then we narrow down further from there.After about a 5 minute Q & A, we are usually able to say, “Ah – ok, in that case, this is what we propose we do,” and a video concept is born. We show them a few examples of what we’re proposing, and 9 times out of 10, the client says, “YES, that’s EXACTLY what I want!” and then we can move onto Step 2.Step 2: ProposalAs soon as we know what kind of video we’re talking about, we can usually give the client a ballpark estimate of the budget needed to achieve what they’re looking for. Even if it’s not exact, we like to provide a high and low range so that expectations can be set right away and neither party wastes time going further into a project that can’t be finished.If the client agrees with the verbal cost range, we ask more questions to determine what will go into these 3 “buckets”: pre-production, production and post-production. Do you want us to write the script? Will we have to do any research on the topic? Are we interviewing anyone? Where would you like to shoot this? Do you want customized graphics or animation? Voiceover?Sometimes we know exactly what they want and can suggest what should go into these 3 buckets without much input from the client. We write up and email the formal proposal with all the costs spelled out, usually a day or two after our call about the scope of the project.Once the client signs off on the proposal, we submit a retainer invoice for 50% of the proposed budget.Step 3: Pre-ProductionPre-production, as the word implies, is all the work that happens before production begins. This is where meetings, concept development, research, emails, calls, scheduling, story-boarding and some script writing frequently occur.This is a step that can either get pretty elaborate, or, as is usually the case, stay pretty simple. In this step, we paint a more specific picture for the client about what their final video will look like – either verbally, in writing or via a storyboard. Often, this happens organically through a series of back and forth emails or calls, and no script or storyboard is generated because it’s not necessary. Either way, we’re always looking for ways the client can save money.Once we’re in agreement about the basic premise, style and content of the video, we discuss the plan to make it happen. Then, we at WorldWise Productions get to work on planning for Step 4.Step 4: ProductionProduction is typically the actual shoot – if it’s a live action video. We’ll explain what live action is in a separate article, but generally it’s where you see real people and real locations. This is the primary category our videos fall into with our clients – although increasingly, clients seem to want more and more animated videos too.If an animated video is what we’re talking about, this can either fall into production (if a real artist is drawing in real-time and that needs to be captured on camera – like whiteboard animation) or – if it’s a computer-generated animation style, we skip production altogether and go straight into post-production.Step 5: Post-ProductionAfter we shoot what we need to shoot, we bring all the footage back to our office and begin the process of turning it into a video. This is called post-production.Post-production primarily refers to editing, but before our editor can edit, he or she needs a roadmap in the form of a script. The script needs to reference what goes in what order, where to find interview sound bites, where to find b-roll (video that’s not interviews), whether there’s any graphics, what kind of music to put in the background, etc…In order to do this, we frequently need to send all of our interviews for transcription (with reference to time code every 15 to 20 seconds) and our writer needs to spend a good part of the day going through those transcripts and viewing the interviews again – before beginning to weave the story together.In addition to editing, transcription and script writing, there’s also royalty-free music, any stock footage or images, voiceovers, graphics or animation and increasingly – translation services – that can go into this step. Many of our clients ask us to produce a video in English – and then produce that same video in Spanish or another language.Step 6: First draft of the videoOnce we finish a first draft of the video, we send it to the client in a private, online link for their approval. If they want anything tweaked, we offer one round of editing revisions free of charge. If they LOVE the video with no changes, we move onto Step 7!Step 7: Final video deliveryYahoo! The client receives a shiny, polished, full HD final video in their email in-box to download. This is the end of the “process” for most of our clients.Some, though, want DVDs as well, or ask us to cut a social media-sized version of the video to blast out on their social media channels or use as a “teaser” sizzle. Or, some decide at this stage that they need a Part 2 to the video they just created. Or, they want the video in another language. Or….Your video possibilities are endless with WorldWise Productions!

tl;dr (aka The Lazy Section): Dave came on Quora and started writing Everyone Dies™ answers. He gained a group of followers (the Legion of Actual Doom). Over time it grew in popularity until it became the empire that is ConsDeva.Welcome, Visitor. You’ve come here to hear a tale. A tale that has existed since the Consigliori themselves were first founded. A tale that is comparable to even the Creation stories of religion. Indeed, it is the Creation story, the one tale that precedes all the rest. You wanted that tale. Now you’ll get that tale.This is the origin story of Consiglio Devastations. Sit back and relax.It all begins with Dave. You may know him better as Dave Consiglio, Destroyer of Worlds. But he did not start off like this. Once, eons ago, he was a mere mortal, just as normal as you or I. He was a smart student, and he worked hard. Some teachers, brimming with envy, loathed him. The majority, however, loved him. He showed skill and promise. Little did they know which form that promise would eventually take.Dave graduated from university with an extensive knowledge of science that was utilized in the classroom, for he had become a teacher. Every day he had the opportunity to explain complicated sciencey things in a simple manner. This, too, would prove useful in the future as he explains his Devastations to the public.It was a cheerful day, not too long ago, where a young Dave was introduced to a certain website by a good friend. He, too, has an active Quora account by the name Habib, Sultan of Sockistan, though that may just be a cover-up for his true identity. Habib showed the young grasshopper the myriad possibilities that Quora had in store. In time, Dave became one of us, a useful fact repository that was the extension of his life as a humble teacher.In time, Quora changed him, and he stumbled upon a revelation. Students were not as engaged as he liked. Their newfangled video games were so much more fascinating than the monotonous lectures of a teacher. It was then that the Dave realized he had to make learning fun. And what better way than taking the pleasure of killing someone in a shooter game and magnifying it seven-billion-fold?Unfortunately, Dave’s very first death answer is lost to us, though studies point to Dave Consiglio's answer to What would happen to the Earth if it stopped for a second and started spinning the other way around?. Since then, he has embarked on a wondrous adventure of death and devastation. Hundreds of people started following him, expectant and impatient for his next Devastation. Somewhere along the line, the trademark Everyone Dies™ also came into effect.The organization that became Consiglio Devastations was once called the Quoran Destroyers, or the Legion of Actual Doom. Here was a group of minions who would do Dave’s bidding as he destroyed worlds. The destruction increases.Dave Consiglio's answer to Robert Frost says that moons cannot be planets. Does that mean our own Moon is not a planet? was officially that start of Consiglio Devastations, where he links to a Google Doc that outlines the basics of the company. The people in the “Main people involved” section are the first Consigliori, the first supporters of death and devastation. Along with the Doc came a Catalogue, a currency, and eventually a Google Slides presentation. Our sphere of influence was rising faster than it had ever been.In our opening months (oh, how glorious it was!), we introduced many of our new products, the most notable of which was the Consiglinator series, built with the best hardware and the best software. It would be a while before an official Order Form came along, but our presence was known, and the amount of hypothetical scenarios where Everyone Dies™ increased.Nowadays, our products come slower, but they are still the epitome of devastation. We have not only cool technology, but weaponized turtles as well. And (don’t tell anyone) we even have pizza, courtesy of software developer User (the stereotypical snacking coder). We don’t just make Devastation, we are Devastation. Our deadlines really are.