How did you learn to program?

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Out of curiosity, how did you first learn to program? I'm trying to expand my knowledge some more and want to see what way is most effective for people. I've mostly used online tutorials, which really aren't that great as the quality of information varies a lot. I'm considering using Codecademy, Codeschool, or TreeHouse. I'm also thinking of maybe getting a course off Udemy, or just ordering a book off Amazon. How'd you guys do it?
 
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https://thenewboston.com/ free basic info for almost any language that you would be interested in,also youtube clips but those are for basic also,most of the time iv spent on google and reading articles and posts!
 
I learnt programming from my teacher.
He helped me a lot in learning programming and all languages easily in a short period of time.
 
Personally, I don't enjoy sitting, trying to learn stuff from a youtube video. I like to apply things practically.

I gave myself a project and figured it out along the way. Google is a pretty useful tool, as it turns out. There's also a ton of useful code on stackoverflow.com
 
I learned from my teacher but the best way to be professional developer is to start creating project like Conor said.
 
Most of the courses from the sources you mentioned should be good enough. But what will really get you to learn how to do something is to try to do it. My unqualified advice would be to find a course that would include regular projects and try and do them quite diligently and in the meantime make a list of 3 personal pet projects that you want to build by yourself - one that seems simple enough even now, one that seems difficult but doable and one that seems huge. Make sure that you complete them all by the end of the course. If a course doesn't cover what you need, google it or get another course. If you can built the 3rd project easily with the knowledge you got from the course, it means the project was too simple. At any stage of learning, try to challenge yourself more and more and try to get people to pay you to challenge yourself with their projects as well. Keep doing that. Programmers should never stop learning (just like IMs).
 
One of the first web based things I did was a classic asp site for company I worked for as an industrial programmer. I was given a asp book and wrote it in notepad, that was true pain and frustration and back then there was little information on the web for complex problems apart from paid sites I think.

Anyhow this is how I tackle learning new languages these days. I would say first watch a basic course to understand the fundamental's if you have got prior programming in a different language you could skip this step and just learn syntax for language.

The key to learning anything is applying it so once you have the basics understood select a small project and each time you get stuck or don't understand learn that specific area.

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Coursera is pretty good to learn pretty much anything! I've learn from there.
 
I have learnt also from MOOC of my country. There are a lot of good quality
 
By making stuff. First you pick something to build. The first program I remember creating was to print this on the screen (it was an example on a BASIC manual):

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(so, the editor mangled it, it's supposed to be from both sides, a tree :o )

Then you learn how to do it better. And then better. Then you pick something else to build. Then you build it better. You get the drift.
 
I learnt while I asked long time ago on a tech forum how those people build such hacks software with images? I got a ban there because of my "hacking question", but a nice person told me to take a look at Visual Studio, so I did.

Don't know if that person got ban also through... :o
 
Just learned from online tutorials and ebooks.
 
Get yourself a good ebook that will teach you the basics then try working on two or three projects. I can recommend good a Python book if you are into python.
 
I learned to program in a variety of ways. Books, practice, watching others, videos, reading code, and even talking in person. The brain learns in different ways.
 
I learned it from the Internet. In those days, there weren't so many resources like now. Lots of tutorials have been read in order to learn to write my first lines of code. Now I just read the documentation, watch some talks on youtube about architecture etc.
 
Pick a programming language(i sugget language C for begin) and write much program with it . Don't learn more language if you are beginer .
 
javascripter said:
Out of curiosity, how did you first learn to program? I'm trying to expand my knowledge some more and want to see what way is most effective for people. I've mostly used online tutorials, which really aren't that great as the quality of information varies a lot. I'm considering using Codecademy, Codeschool, or TreeHouse. I'm also thinking of maybe getting a course off Udemy, or just ordering a book off Amazon. How'd you guys do it?
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I'm a teamtreehouse gal myself. Depends on how you learn but I like that they give you projects and walk you through building them. Some of the vids are a little cheesy but it's a good way to get started with a new language. From that point, I'm with Jazz 100% - you make stuff, work out what you don't like, make it again but better.. ad infinitum.

Ultimately, all the teaching in the world won't make you a coder, all it'll do is give you a leg up. It's whether you've got the mindset to fiddle and tinker and tweak on your own initiative that'll determine how good you get.
 
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