How Did You Learn To Code?

I bought a book on html in 2001. From there I picked it up as needed.

Started coding (if thats what you can call it!) on my ZX Spectrum about 30 years ago (the old rubber keyboard speccy.....ah fond memories!)

Then did a bit of coding on BBC Micros and then got a proper PC (IBM PS/2 SX55 for thhose who remember them )

For some reason I then started playing with HTML and graphics, found out I was shit at it so turned to the back end stuff and started coding PHP and Perl for fun and for friends websites.

Nowadays I still do it for fun, but also to get beer money - as soon as I don't enjoy messing around with code and trying to figure out logic problems will be the day I hang up my coding shoes. If its not enjoyable, its no fun to do.

So all in all I guess I have been messing about with code for 30+ years, both for fun and partly for my 9-5 job as well - guess I am lucky

I started when myspace was a big thing, and everyone was changing how their profile looked. I began to play with the html coding in the "About Me:" section, until I was happy with the way the page was looking. Then i got into seo and used wordpress to put a site up and learn how the webbed worked, and dived into the php scripts which looked similar to html, and kept going upward from there. It pays to research, and jump right into it.

Find a reason you can learn coding that you'll enjoy what youre doing, and look up any questions you may have, or things youd like to manipulate in your coding. Odds are youre not the only one with that question. And you can learn as you go.

My father asked me if I wanted to make serious money one day. Of course, being the idiot son that I am, I said hell yeah.

Then he put in my lap a C# book, ASP.NET, SQL, HTML, Networking and Security, CSS, and as I looked up in horror, knowing I was probably gonna regret it, he told me, "Its a lot easier than it looks, I'll give you small projects to help me with my larger ones." And I learned by helping him at first, recognizing small patterns, then started to become more aware of how flexible code was and grew from there before I made penny auction scripts, autoposts on youtube, microwebsite generators, scrapers, and basically everything else under the sun as the demand came along.

This started only a couple years ago, and from that day, I have learned 13 computer languages and thinking about a 14th one I want to learn, probably Java or C++ next. C++ to impress the ladies, Java for practicality

satyawrat said:

You can become a good programmer with little maths skills.
To be great programmer you need mathematics.

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so true, so true

tizagdotcom

I don't know if that website still exist. but I learned basic coding from there, from html to php and sql etc.

Cloaks said:

It's also considered cheap because you aren't doing a lot of programming for the GUI part, I think. It's a lot harder to make GUIs in, say, C than VB because VB is just click-and-done.

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Thats the good thing with Visual Studio. You can concentrate on the functionality of the program which for me is the most important part.

GUI is for noobs
No but it takes a lot of time and is not always necessary but the normal users need their fancy GUIs otherwise the won't be satisfied.

I started with C# before i changed school where i learned some other languages like Java, PHP, Python, HTML Web stuff etc but my main language is still C# and sometimes PHP.