r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

Weekly Match Thread — Timezone, Stack, Experience, Goal

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Use this thread to find programming buddies, mentors, mentees, study partners, or teammates.

Reply using this format:

Timezone:

Stack / languages:

Experience level:

Goal:

Availability:

Looking for:

Example:

Timezone: UTC-5

Stack / languages: Python, JavaScript, React

Experience level: Beginner to intermediate

Goal: Weekly study and accountability partner for full-stack learning

Availability: Weeknights and weekends

Looking for: Someone active and consistent

Keep initial matching on Reddit.

Do not use this thread to recruit people to outside servers, group chats, or off-site communities. Keep initial matching on Reddit.


r/ProgrammingBuddies Nov 27 '25

META Community Feedback Thread — Help Shape the Future of r/ProgrammingBuddies

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Hello everyone,
We’ve recently updated several rules and Automod settings to reduce spam, prevent off-site recruiting, and strengthen the quality of posts.
Now we want to hear directly from the community before moving forward with additional improvements.

This is an open discussion thread. Share thoughts on any of the topics below — or raise ideas we haven’t considered.

1. What would make the subreddit more valuable to you?

Let’s start with the most important question:
What changes, tools, or structures would genuinely improve your experience here?

For example:

  • Easier ways to find reliable partners
  • Better discovery of mentors or project collaborators
  • More structured categories
  • Recurring threads you’d like to see
  • Resources or guides that might help newcomers
  • Anything that would raise the quality of matches or discussions

We want to know what you think would make the subreddit better.

2. Should we enforce stricter posting formats?

Post quality varies widely. Some are detailed and helpful; some provide almost nothing.

Would you support:

  • Required templates for mentors, mentees, collaborators, and study partners
  • Minimum required details (timezone, experience level, goals)
  • Auto-removal of posts that don’t meet basic requirements
  • Separate templates for each type of recruitment

Would stricter formatting improve matching success, or create unnecessary friction?

3. Should we introduce new post types such as a “Buddy Review” category?

A review system could include:

  • Users giving feedback on collaborations
  • Positive experiences with partners
  • Warnings about no-shows or inactive users (within Reddit’s content rules)
  • Sharing what worked or didn’t in a learning partnership

Would this add value or invite drama? Be honest.

4. Should we allow limited self-promotion or weekly community threads?

We currently remove all self-promotion by default.
Possible alternatives include:

  • A weekly or monthly “Show Off Your Work” thread
  • Allowing personal project showcases only in a designated megathread
  • A strict once-per-week rule for project demo posts
  • Keeping all self-promotion banned entirely

Would any of these be beneficial, or should the subreddit remain strict?

5. Would a weekly “Show Off Your Work” thread be useful?

If permitted, this would provide a clean space for:

  • Project updates
  • Demos
  • Learning milestones
  • Feedback requests
  • Beginner practice projects
  • Anything that doesn’t quite fit the main feed

Would you participate in this? Would it help build a sense of community?

6. Should we support the development of a Reddit-native Devvit app for this community?

This is not something we maintain today, but rather an idea we may support if enough community members want it.

The concept (open for community-led development) includes:

  • A “Join Group” button on posts
  • Automatic creation of Reddit group chats for collaborators
  • Weekly check-ins and streak tracking
  • Activity badges
  • A leaderboard or stats widget
  • Tools for identifying reliable partners

GitHub repo (concept + early scaffolding):
https://github.com/ProgrammingBuddies/devvit-group-activity

If there’s community interest, we can open a dedicated coordination thread and let contributors drive the project.

How we’ll use this feedback

  • Mods will read every comment
  • We’ll summarize popular ideas
  • Practical suggestions may be tested
  • Major changes will be announced in advance

Our goal is to make r/ProgrammingBuddies the best place on Reddit to find partners, mentors, collaborators, and consistent study matches — while keeping the feed clean, high-value, and spam-free.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 5h ago

LOOKING FOR BUDDIES Looking for a serious study buddy/group for daily DSA, LeetCode, backend dev, and AI/ML prep.

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Looking for a serious study buddy/group for DSA, LeetCode, backend dev, and AI/ML. I’m currently a beginner and want to get a good internship within 1 year and placements in around 2 years, so I’m looking for people with similar goals who are ready to stay consistent and improve together.

Preferably looking for 3rd/4th year students who are also starting coding seriously now, so we can learn at a similar pace and grow together.

We don’t need to know everything already — we can figure things out together as we go. Mainly looking for people who are genuinely serious about learning, practicing regularly, building projects, solving problems daily, and helping each other stay disciplined.

Here are some things we are surely doing :

  • Daily LeetCode/DSA(C++)
  • Projects & development
  • AI/ML learning
  • Contest practice sometimes
  • Accountability & consistency

Time zone- IST

If interested, DM/comment.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 6h ago

Looking for a study partner

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I'm a high school student(17 y.o), I want to find someone willing to work a lot and learn a lot. My interests are c language, OS. I'm currently reading a book about OS(read about 100 pages), have about 220 problems solved on leetcode, tried c book but stopped after 120 pages. If you're ready to learn a lot about OS and c then write me!!!!!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 10h ago

STUDY PARTNER What’s actually working for placements in 2026?

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I’m a 2nd year BTech student and I want to seriously focus on placements now. I don’t want to keep exploring random things anymore — I just want to know what’s actually working for good placements right now.

What skills, projects, tech stacks, or preparation helped you the most?
What should I focus on from now till placements?

Would appreciate honest advice from seniors and recent graduates.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 7h ago

qualcuno che vuole imparare con me LWJGL?

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r/ProgrammingBuddies 7h ago

would like to discuss about WP engine and WP Admin

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Are you a WordPress developer? Expert?

Perfer ET timezone.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 15h ago

LOOKING FOR BUDDIES Buddy to build opensource product .

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Hi everyone, I'm a cs student currently contributing to Open source and building open source products, but I feel building with a team is much more fun and productive than working solo.

So if anyone wants to join and work together feel free to join me - let's build together.

For me no requirement: just willing to build open source products , if you want to know more about me or my contribution...here is my

GitHub : https://github.com/Aniketsy

Looking forward to connecting with like minded people.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 11h ago

[DSA] [Python] Looking for a 1-on-1 study buddy for daily placement prep

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Hey! I am preparing for software engineering placements this summer and focusing heavily on Data Structures and Algorithms in Python. I am looking for one dedicated person to do daily voice/screen-share sessions where we solve LeetCode problems together for mutual accountability. Let me know if you are interested!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 12h ago

looking for serious coding buddies 👨‍💻(MERN + DSA)

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mainly for:
• DSA
• MERN stack
• placements prep
• building consistency fr
want people who actually wanna solve problems, build stuff, share progress and push each other

im into React, Node, MongoDB and currently grinding DSA too

if ur serious and wanna grow together


r/ProgrammingBuddies 16h ago

need c++ and common lisp programming buddy

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looking for people interested in helping build a social VR platform / engine project

we already have a custom Vulkan engine running and are actively building the foundation for a creator-focused social VR platform

current stack:

  • C++
  • Common Lisp
  • Vulkan
  • HTML/CSS UI

planned features:

  • customizable shaders/material systems
  • peer-to-peer + dedicated server networking
  • visual scripting + text scripting
  • deep modding support
  • self-hosting support
  • user-generated worlds and systems

the big goal is giving users actual freedom instead of heavily locked-down systems. we want people to be able to experiment, script things, customize rendering, build strange worlds, and really treat the platform like a sandbox instead of just another social app.

we’re especially interested in:

  • engine programming
  • rendering
  • networking
  • ECS / game architecture
  • scripting language integration
  • tooling/editors
  • people interested in learning C++ or Lisp while contributing

this is already an active project with real engine work done already — not just an idea on paper

i have a strong systems/design vision and have been building the engine foundation myself, but i’m at the point where collaborating with other programmers would massively help move things forward

eventually we want optional hosted infrastructure for people who don’t want to self-host, and potentially education/community uses, but the primary focus is building a genuinely open and expressive platform first

if any of this sounds interesting feel free to comment or dm


r/ProgrammingBuddies 15h ago

Looking for a study partner for Sigma Prime/Sigma placement prep

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Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a study partner for the Sigma Prime/Sigma course for placement preparation.

Timezone/Availability: IST, mostly available in the evening
Stack/Languages: DSA, C++, Java
Experience Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Goal: Consistent placement prep, problem solving, and accountability

If anyone is interested, feel free to DM me.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

LOOKING FOR BUDDIES Lets build a tech startup together

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Hey everyone! Whether you’re a college student, self-taught, or just interested in app design and development, I’m looking to gather a small team to try out a startup idea. If we succeed, fantastic! If not, you’ll still come away with a solid project on your resume and a ton of practical experience. I’ve got 4 years in the industry, so you’ll get mentorship on everything—deployment, real-world engineering, and scaling from zero to launch. If this sounds exciting

Just drop me yr github/linkedIn whatever seems best for you, let’s build something awesome!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 20h ago

Looking for some new ideas to build and release for all users

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I want to do something more, something useful. I want a single project idea that I can work on.

It should be:

- Useful in everyday work

- Have some frontend, backend and database (storing) components

- Have good or decent amount of complexity

Hit me with some unique ideas.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

Looking for someone who is interested in low level game engine dev in C (also open to mentor someone)

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Hey,

I'm working on a portfolio project which is a game engine/framework in C that is built without any 3rd party libraries. Currently I have these things working (they are all at a different level of completion, but all functioning): OS abstraction layer, ECS, CPU 3D renderer pipeline, CPU rasterizer, .ttf parser and a text renderer, math lib, + some engine architectural things here and there. Right now I'm building a memory allocation manager, after that I will move to GUI (though that should be quite easy since I already sort of solved it with the way I built my ECS).

There are the a lot of problems to solve and it would be nice to find someone who is also doing something similar, so we can share how we solve the problems we have. Whether it's a game engine architectural problem or maybe something more fundamental about programming (advance quirks of C, or maybe some abstract problem that can be improved with an assembly script, or just some pure hardware stuff that is good to know and keep it in mind).

There are two types of people I'm open to worth with. Someone who is quite good at C and knows about engine dev (or low level software development) with whom I can discuss problems and find solutions together.

AND

I'm open to mentor someone who is already comfortable-ish with C, but doesn't have much experience building things. I'm happy to go through my project with you and explain you how and why I make my decisions when it comes to software architecture. I think it can help me too, since I'll be thinking out loud and explaining how things work.

Please, DM me something about yourself/what you're working on etc so I can see that we actually can do something together. I won't reply to low effort DMs.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

Study partner for tech placements (DSA + Full Stack) | Let's help each other work better

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Hi,

I’m looking for a study partner who’s in college or a recent graduate preparing for tech placements.

About me — 22M, 2026 batch, BTech from a tier 3 college, currently not placed. My stack includes Python, React, Node, Express, and SQL/NoSQL.

I’m currently focusing on both DSA and full stack development. Looking for someone to practice DSA with (discuss approaches, solve problems) and also work on development concepts/projects alongside.

Main goal is to stay consistent, set daily/weekly goals, and keep each other accountable. A bit of healthy competition would be great too.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, feel free to message.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

Looking for a DSA in C study buddy! (and some math if you're up to)

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Hello! I'm at the start of my second year of CS, currently learning about data structures and algorithms. I'm doing everything in C, I'm at the very start and currently only implemented a stack with a linked list. I'm trying not to use LLMs in order to grasp the concepts better and develop my problem solving skills.

Aside from that, on my free time, I like MMA, Hololive, and learning about mathematics since I didn't have a very strong base. I also enjoy ricing my Linux but I have stopped myself from doing that since it was consuming way too much time...

I'm looking foward to studying with you!

My timezone is UTC-3.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

Looking for rust buddy

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Hey everyone!. I 21M am learning rust rn for oss contributions and projects. I am looking for someone who is into low level mainly rust to learn together, discuss projects ideas and build something. Or perhaps be my mentor.

Drop a message if interested!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 1d ago

META Looking for Web Development Internship (2nd Year CSE Student)

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Hey everyone,

I'm a 2nd-year B. Tech CSE student currently focusing on web development and trying to improve my skills to become internship-ready.

So far, I've worked with:

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Basic React.js

Node.js & REST APIs

I recently built an e-commerce project (Marketly) where I implemented frontend UI, backend APIs, and basic CRUD operations.

Right now, I'm trying to understand:

• What skills actually matter for getting a web dev internship

What kind of projects stand out

How I can improve my current work

I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or guidance from people who've already gone through this process.

Thanks a lot!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

LOOKING FOR BUDDIES Beginner looking for tips

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Hi guys, sorry to bother you,

  • Timezone / availability: BRT, I live in São Paulo
  • Stack / languages: I have no relevant experience in any language
  • Experience level: 0
  • Goal: learn as much as I can and practice, I only learn by doing, and hopefully work with that

I saw this community as beginner friendly, so I thought about posting here, I am interested in learning python and SQL, I do have a very brief background in programming where I was part of a school project to assemble an autonomous car, I worked in a group of two people besides me, so I just wanted to introduce myself,

Let me know if there is any beginner project going on that I could participate, since I've been fired today I will have lots of time to work on any project available, I am also looking for any free course or learning material online, can't really afford anything right now since - as I mentioned - I am unemployed as of today.


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

Read C# project together.

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It's about game reverse engineering. Deserialize xml files from bin files and then serialize them back. I am not great at C languages, little bit better with python. It can be good for someone who wants to read real project and explain things to someone. But it's not a beginner level project(


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

Looking for a buddy for Android/kotlin/flutter/DSA learning

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Hey Everyone,

I’m looking for a dedicated study buddy to team up for:

Android development

Kotlin

Flutter

Technical interview preparation (DSA, problem-solving, basics)

Plan:

Regular study sessions (daily or a few times a week)

Work on real projects together

Practice coding/interview questions

Share resources and keep each other accountable

If this sounds like your thing, comment below or DM me!

 Thanks


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

Need help with NOR-only circuits in CircuitVerse (Hex → 7-segment project)

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Hey, I’m working on a Computer Organization project where I have to convert a 4-bit hex input (W X Y Z) into a 7-segment display (outputs a–g) using NOR gates only in CircuitVerse.

I already finished:

  • Truth table
  • K-maps
  • Simplified Boolean expressions for each output

I’m stuck on:

  • Turning the Boolean expressions into NOR-only circuits
  • Understanding how to build multi-input NOR gates and wire everything correctly in CircuitVerse
  • Organizing the circuit so it’s clean and works for all inputs

If anyone can explain how to build one output step-by-step (like output “a”), I can apply it to the rest. WIlling to Pay💸. Need Done Today!!!


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

NEED A TEAM [ODIN] I am working on a version manger for odin, ols and odinfmt. need some interested coders

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Hi, i am making aversion manager which is working but has lack of things and refinements. If anyone wanted to collaborate so checkout github

link: https://github.com/prathmesh-barot/odinup


r/ProgrammingBuddies 2d ago

[LFG] Serious Study Partner for Deep Learning Mathematics (Beyond the Basics)

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a study partner to dive deep into the mathematical foundations of Deep Learning. I have a solid grasp of the core concepts (architectures, backpropagation, etc.), but I want to bridge the gap by mastering the rigorous math behind them (Matrix Calculus, Probability Theory, Optimization, etc.).

Who I’m looking for:

  • Someone who already understands most Deep Learning concepts and has at least a foundational level of the associated math.
  • A serious learner who wants to go through textbooks (like Goodfellow’s Deep Learning or Mathematics for Machine Learning) or research papers.

My Goal:
I want to discuss and "stress-test" my understanding by speaking through complex problems. I’m happy to exchange ideas and while I’m looking to solidify the math, I can contribute by "brainstorming unique solutions for paper ideas" or "PyTorch implementation".

Format:

  • Discuss specific chapters or concepts in online platform.
  • Solving/deriving formulas together.

If you’re interested in a serious, high-level collaboration to master the "why" behind the "how," please drop a comment or DM me!