How Did You Learn To Code?

RightFootFanatic said:

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.

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why you hated java? i messed with it couple weeks. eventually I stopped but it seemed like nice multipurpose multiplatform language

i really recommend you to learn python as it is really easy to learn but the language "doesnt really matter" a lot what you will learn are the bascis of how to code like bucles data structures how to structure your code what kind of methods you can make efficiency etc , then learning a new language its just learning how that language write that things specifically so it usually doesnt take a lot of work

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I learnt to 'code' when it was still called programming back in 1985 from my father who wrote machine code computer games for the Dragon 32 and Commodore 64 later. Basic first, then C/assembler/pascal, then C+, then C++/asp, then perl/python/php, now whatever I need to perform a task.

aidenhera said:

why you hated java? i messed with it couple weeks. eventually I stopped but it seemed like nice multipurpose multiplatform language

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I've to admit that's 10 or 12 years ago, so somethings might be outdate. Our teachers / prof were all how great java is as multiplattform and such.
That'S something I already hated as Java was shown as some holy grail, and that's just something I oppose, there's the right tool for a task. I just hate evangelist speakings

Some reasons:
It felt like starting stuttering, after coding c, asm and other stuff - and sometimes like doing paperwork.
Nearly everything is an object.
Repetitive
overhead

That were some points. I admit on enterprise scale Java have advantages. Also here comes in the holy grail part. Larger apps / services are split and coded in a language that fits the needs, data exchanged over apis / connectors what ever you call them. I have doubts java nowadays is practical for smaller projects.

But I don't want to derail this thread

The best way to learn how to program in general in online courses, I've learnt almost all of my programming with many online platforms.

I know C++, C#, a bit PHP, and HTML,CSS which is actually not a programming language, but it is good to start with a clean mindset of how to write a good organized clean code.

Your first bet should be youtube, and online forums, to just get into it, then go to torrent websites, such as thepiratebay and the russian tracker, and simply write the language you want to learn, you'll find a few pages of torrents depends on the language itself.

Download some torrents, download the first 1 or 2 videos, check them out, if you like the instructor and feel like you will actually learn anything, because this it the MOST important thing in the course, to feel that you can learn from the instructor and you actually like him, believe me if he/she is not good or boring, or the accent is not good, or whatever you don't like about, you will NEVER learn anything and you will HATE the programming, hate yourself and will never try it again.

So that's it, also lynda offer the best course because they got a quality control, udemy is garbage, almost %98 of udemy is garbage, avoid it by all means.

Good luck, programming is a very fun and worth it

I've been doing this for years and my advice to you is FUNDAMENTALS . Learn concepts not keywords and syntax.Try to understand it in depth and "try and fail" is best way to learn . Because while you try to solve the problem you will learn more .

I wanted to make games and this is why I started and I did make games and still do even worked in a game dev studio. Now I'm into web development more.

MonzterSlayer said:

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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