"Wrote programs back in High School on my TI-89 to solve projectile motion equations for AP physics"
Good grief! They made me take algebra every single year of high-school because I couldn't pass it. I even took it 2 times in college. I guess I'm not a quitter. I finally smoked it in my early 20s at a community college over summer. It was glorious. I got a b- and finally understood it.
I did some programming but didn't get much past real basic math problems that even I could do in my head.
That said I like to dig into shit. I build my own PC's and like to run Slackware linux, stuff like that.
AA my wife and I got Hello world working with your instructions then the power went out and a bunch of stuff happened and its been like 2 months since I looked at it. It was clear and concise though.
Anyway My time here will be weather dependent. Always keep that in mind. I am fully solar powered. I have a desktop/crypto mining rig/gaming rig but it drinks 1000w of power to run which will wipe my batt. bank in about 4 hours on a cloudy day. Other than that I have a little windows tablet and an android phone. What I really need is a laptop but , you know, that $$. Plus if we make all this work it wont matter anyway.
When the weather is nice I will be outside working on my place as well so as you can see I have to steal time to get in front of a desktop computer. As the weather gets better I will have more time. I always check in daily though on my phone.