Any professional programmer here ? How did you learn it ?

Hello,

As the question says:
Are you a professional programmer?
If the answer was yes, Where/How did you learn it?

Best regards.

Yes.
Smoking weed, skipping college classes and learning at home.

Somedays ago i had to learn VueJs, the difference is that i dont smoke weed anymore and im not in college.

I'm not programmer but there are so many good free stuff online, tutorials, courses both free and paid ones.
It's easy to learn today, people just need to move their ass and do it
I'm not talking about you OP

All the best!

With practice.

First learn the basics, then try to do different projects. That's the best way for me.

i'm a senior developer, started in the mid 90s as a hobby and later learned in a company. in the beginning did VB, then C and some perl and ASM. after that i kept studying and after starting my own company in the early 2000s i kept learning new stuff on my own like PHP, or for example when C# came up i got into that as well. additionally been studying some scripting languages like LUA when i needed it. best is learning by doing. read some books to get you started and then just learn as you go when doing new projects. you don't have to study computer science to be a good programmer, you just have to have a drive for it.

I had my first contact with webdesign when I was like 12 years old. Then became interested in automating stuff in video games and learned autoit which was my first "programming language".
Since I wanted to do more than just design, I gradually got into webdev and from there it was somewhat easy to pick up other languages like python or java.
I've started working full time as webdeveloper at a mid-size company 2yrs ago and I'm transitioning towards fullstack development atm.

I think that webdev is a great way to kick things off since you can begin with some HTML & CSS to get a feeling for coding and then step by step get into JS & PHP. It really is about learning the concept and patterns of programming so the technology doesn't matter too much. Just get used to reviewing and rewriting your stuff. The code you produce now will look like complete garbage to you in just a few months. You absolutely have to put the time in to learn concepts and good practice and be willing to actually apply them on order to improve.

And: Make coding your hobby. Make sure you have some side projects going on etc.

Coding complete project by yourself from a to z is better than reading 1000 books about programming... like any skill to master it you need to practice it.

I attended a coding bootcamp (galvanize) and although I recently graduated and still looking for a job, it was a great experience, and worth looking into. They’re pretty pricey but if you were in the military you can get in for free and they also have income share agreements as well.

Yes, I'm

And it's the same as all other things you want to learn to be an expert... you need to spend tons of hours reading, practicing dong research, there is not a magic way, you need to be persistent, with programing or whatever else you want to learn

It's more about your attitude than how it was done for others

one resource I always recommend: freeCodeCamp

Is by far the best resource you can use. It has a structured approach with the end goal to make you literate in full-stack web development.

Once you finish it, you can actually start your own project.

try to build smth
fail if u aren't pro
Repeat until u're pro

Iterations depend on how smart u are