How Did You Learn To Code?

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MonzterSlayer

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Howdy everybody,

I've been wanting to begin learning Code for a little while to create Bots. I just find the automation and time saving from a Bot is priceless and it's amazing what they actually can do and how much they help!

I've gotten recommendations to learn Python since I have no past experience, but others have also recommended I do Node.js because it easily outperforms Python (according to them)

Anyways enough with what I want to do. I just want to know how you guys discovered and learned to code so it may help me learn or be able to know which resources not to use!
 
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Depends on your preference what you want to make, I'd recommend research what are the best languages to do what with.

You can basically learn any language for free on youtube.

But if you are looking for free courses on python, then try data camp or codecademy. Both start out at the very basics like you've never learnt any other language before.

And if you want to directly jump into something while learning you can probably find a course on it at udemy, or coursera. Some of the courses at coursera are free, most courses are 15$ at udemy.
 
google and youtube is best teacher in the world, you can get anything that you want, you need use proper search
 
if you want to learn free of cost then Google and Youtube right place for you, you can find many tutorial step by step there, but its hard to find quality tutorial, if you are ready to spend money for learning so that findout that cource at Udemy.
 
I’m currently in the python learning process. I had some basic understanding of coding beforehand, but chose python because people say it’s easier. Eventually I want to learn c++ because people say it’s more useful, but one step at a time. I downloaded “automate the boring stuff” by al swiegart off of thepiratebay (I didn’t realize it’s free online) and tackled one chapter a day. Now going back through and doing more excersizes to internalize more of these little things.

Once I finish this book, I’m probably going to start “automating the boring stuff” in my everyday life and seeing where it takes me. Continuing to develop this skill seems like it will return dividends of time
 
I learned only to pass in programming subject in my graduation. :) The book was Let us C which everyone used in my college.
 
Most people will tell you to learn C or C++ to get into "real" coding.

But I really recommend to use a easy coding language like Python. You will struggle hard enough when you learn coding, so there is no need to begin with the most complicated language like C or C++. Stay with Python or something similiar.

And watch a lot of YouTube Videos. There are really good ones out there, especially from Indian guys (so easy and step by step.

Enoy coding! :)
 
I hate coding videos, they all suck at a certain point and don't progress along.

Read a book about general coding. Then had a read of the documentation of the language to learn basics about the syntax.
After the I read public accessible code of others. You learn so much reading and understanding code of others.
 
If you really want to learn deeply, read books. Videos are great to give you a taste, like a preview. But nothing beats one good book. In fact, there are so many concepts you'll eventually find yourself reading a lot of different books.
 
i learned coding in my college as i am a computer science graduate . i quickly find it really interesting .Then i worked in a big company on embedded systems mostly coding in C . But due to my health issues i need to leave job after 2 years and after that i am doing web development for 5 years now.
 
Node.js seems to be really hot these days, but python and perl are your friends if you want to start coding bots quick.

C and C++ will only be needed when you decide to sell your bot in the future ;)
 
Has anyone given golang a shot for building bots? I'm pretty tempted to give go a testride this year.
 
for coding i was use youtube well explaind and allot of good information
 
RightFootFanatic said:
Has anyone given golang a shot for building bots? I'm pretty tempted to give go a testride this year.
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the best rule of thumb in coding is not to pursue everything which looks hot . i have seen people earning big money by doing html/css coding only because they are doing it consistently for several years .Same goes for c,c++ and java . Bot is just a computer program . people with good expertise in c can build much better and faster bots then those with little golang experience .

golang is not designed specifically for bot programming .its a general purpose server side language like python or node . so i dont think why it will be a better choice .
 
krazylearner said:
the best rule of thumb in coding is not to pursue everything which looks hot . i have seen people earning big money by doing html/css coding only because they are doing it consistently for several years .Same goes for c,c++ and java . Bot is just a computer program . people with good expertise in c can build much better and faster bots then those with little golang experience .

golang is not designed specifically for bot programming .its a general purpose server side language like python or node . so i dont think why it will be a better choice .
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I'm a webdeveloper, and earning my money with that ;) I'm just looking for something new to conquer and c, cpp or c# were never my kind of languages I want to learn for hobby projects.
And Java I hated straight away from the first lesson. So it's not about making money for me ;)

Also comparing most languages to c is kind of unfair - and when you compare coders then those on same skill level. Experienced Java coders would also outdo unskilled c coders.

Neither are most languages designed for bot programming in the first place. I guess there are some use cases for bots when go could play it's parallelizing features.
 
You can become an apprentice for some programmer. But it would be nice to know the basics. And still you can search for video lessons on YouTube. There is a huge amount of such material.
 
I think you should continue with Python 3, it's a very easy and powerfull language. Give a try to learnpython org (sorry, don't have enough posts to put a link)
 
I am currently learning Python mostly (Flask). I would recommend that for IM you should probably learn Python, CSS & HTML. Some people will think HTML & CSS are no-brainers and not even mention them - but, I've found they can go much deeper than I initially thought. Also, in Flask there is Jinja which sort of combines Python with HTML. Jinja is like node.js I believe because it's used to build templates for web pages.

Regarding learning, I'd recommend you go to a site like Udemy, and get a web developer course for $15. Work through most of it so you understand it. If you're in IM, a lot of it will come to you much easier because you've already dealt with it. After that, I recommend that you get into Python and start building bots or web apps.

Learning programming has been tough for me. What takes me hours to figure out, can be written by an expert programmer in 30 seconds. Be prepared to waste a lot of time trying to decipher Stack Overflow questions. Also, don't expect to be able to jump right in and have a working bot the first time you ever open an IDLE.
 
Well I did learn from StackOverflow ;) and Youtube.

Udemy and Lynda are also great platform to learn!
 
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