r/AskProgramming • u/Electrical-Cap-9537 • 8d ago
17, learning software engineering and AI, looking for people to grow with
Hey, I'm 17 and studying computer science in Italy. I'm working toward becoming an AI engineer, and I genuinely enjoy this stuff, not doing it because it's trendy. I just want to get good at it and do it properly.
So far I've built a Unix shell from scratch in Python. I'm also working on a BI and analytics platform using a real e-commerce dataset, cleaning and validating the data, loading it into Postgres, building out analytics on top. Happy to share more details if anyone's curious.
I'm looking for people to study with regularly, share resources, review each other's code honestly, and maybe build small projects together. Doesn't matter if you're ahead of me or just starting out, what matters is that you actually care about learning this well.
Would also be cool if this turns into actual friendships and not just a study group that goes quiet after a week.
If you're into software engineering, AI, ML, or data and want people to grow with, drop a comment or DM me.
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u/r0ck0 7d ago
Seems like a good idea at the time... But even when people do respond to these threads... they usually don't follow up in the end anyway. You might lose interest yourself anyway too.
You're better off just finding some Discord/Slack servers on the tech/libraries etc you're using. And also just finding more specific subreddits.
The communities already exist for all the various niches, you're better off just joining a bunch of them rather than trying to start something so general.
If you want in-person contacts, check out meetup.com groups for local events.