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09-15-2013, 03:24 PM #1Newbie
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Learning programming
Hello there,
Just wanted to ask the following questions for programmers basically.
1. How did you learn programming?
2. If you were to recommend books, procedures, tips to someone who would like to learn please also supply some information based on your personal experience and outlook.
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09-15-2013, 03:58 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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I've found tutsplus.com to be super helpful in learning, they provide very in-depth and step-by-step tutorials in video and text format.
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09-16-2013, 12:37 AM #3Disabled
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You can also check out lynda.com.
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09-16-2013, 01:08 AM #4Web Hosting Evangelist
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Well, besides reading programming/logic books the best way to learn to program is to actually write the code. Start writing simple programs and read other people's code as well.
as others have pointed out, those two resources are quite good, especially the series at tutsplus.com . I found reading code on github very useful too. It depends on the language you want to learn, but there are many free programming e-books out there which you may find helpful during the journey---=== RoseHosting.com Admin ===---
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09-16-2013, 05:44 AM #5WHT Addict
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Here are some sites that will help you learn programming, I think all of them are free, so you will not have to pay anything.
http://coderace.me/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrica...puter-science/
https://www.udacity.com/how-it-works
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
http://thecodeplayer.com/
And my favorite:
http://www.codecademy.com/0
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09-18-2013, 05:28 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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09-19-2013, 11:54 AM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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I definitely understand the upside to using a basic IDE when learning to program, but full featured IDE's would help with code completion and providing helpful hints as to what a function does, or even the order of variables needed. I use Sublime and love it, but I miss the code completion aspect of other IDEs when I use a function I rarely use.
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09-19-2013, 11:56 AM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Also, back to OP. If you are learning PHP/Javascript/HTML, W3Schools gets based a lot, but that is where I learned several years ago (and not much has changed since then). I still use them from time to time to look at different libraries.
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09-19-2013, 04:59 PM #9Web Hosting Guru
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True. W3Schools is (and has been for a *long* time) one of those resources that's handy to have whenever you need a quick reference. Trying to recall which PHP function to use, or how to properly display your CSS setting? Head right on over to W3Schools!
I used them almost exclusively to learn HTML/CSS. I became acquainted with PHP through them as well, but I found that instructional videos were a lot more useful in that category. However, I do find their PHP guides a lot more helpful now whenever I need a quick refresher. Granted, www.php.net is something any programmer will probably want to become familiar with as well.0
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09-20-2013, 02:18 AM #10Newbie
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I started learning programming maybe 20+ years ago, today it would be totally different.
You didn't provide us with any details, so please tell us what kind of programming you want to learn?
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09-20-2013, 05:11 AM #11Newbie
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Great tips from the users above. An alternative to learn it yourself online, there are good classes you can take. Have a look at www.starterleague.com (partly owned/promoted by the famous 37Signals).
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09-20-2013, 01:34 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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No that's step 2 Step 1 is to start with an idea/project you care about. Something you want to build. First thing I ever built was a perl guestbook for my band's website in jr high. Now I know perl There's many ways to achieve the same result, the right ways come with experience. Right now just have fun & google everything. It's like legos█ | | i write code
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09-22-2013, 02:07 AM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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Re: Learning programming
CS50 has some fairly decent content in it's lectures.
http://cs50.tv
Won't make you a superstar guru programmer overnight, but explains the fundamentals and has examples in both C and Java from memory.
The theory and ideas should carry through to other languages, and maybe give some idea of how they work under the hood.0
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09-22-2013, 03:34 AM #14Aspiring Evangelist
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Go here first http://code.org/
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09-23-2013, 11:34 AM #15Need Moar KAWFEE
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I actually got my start in what is now WHT's sister site, www.hotscripts.com.
Downloaded a bunch of scripts, tweaked them so I could understand how they worked and went from there.
Sure, you could learn from books, tutorials, class room instruction, etc., but NOTHING will ever replace real world hands-on experience.
Start off with some of the free simple scripts and build up from there. If you're wanting to learn PHP, make sure you read as much as you can handle on www.php.net and look at some of their examples. Warning: You'll probably be overwhelmed on the PHP.net site, but keep plugging away.
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09-27-2013, 05:46 PM #16WHT Addict
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I learned how to program by taking classes in high school and college, I found that having material dictated to me allowed me to learn much faster then through experimentation or self teaching. I would suggest watching tutorials from "thenewboston" via youtube to learn how to program.
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09-27-2013, 06:53 PM #17Junior Guru
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If you wanna learn programming I'd highly suggest treehouse. It's a great website with detailed videos on programming from simple html to php. It even has videos on programming ios apps.
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09-28-2013, 06:59 AM #18Junior Guru Wannabe
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I learned programming on my college as i am doing btech in a college and i learned c and c++ first and so i will refer that a person should start with these . Concept of OOPs are there in every programming so i refer each person to learn this first.
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10-02-2013, 04:11 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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I learned programming after I built a tournament script for a shooter game which ended up very good for me. It taught me a lot about programming. From there I started learning more about programming.
You should really check out sites like w3schools.com and php killer which are wonderful videos. There's also Phpacademy which is another very good place to learn how to code.0
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10-02-2013, 08:45 AM #20Newbie
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I learned programming by tinkering around at first, when I was quite young, mostly because I found the web fascinating and desired to learn how to build interactive websites. As time went on, I learned better practices and more advanced skills from classes, conferences, books, mentors and hands-on experience.
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10-14-2013, 10:27 AM #21Newbie
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10-14-2013, 07:47 PM #22Newbie
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Write lots of code, use stackoverflow.com a lot. I began writing HTML, because it was simple. Then, I learned a bit of JavaScript, which is basically as good programming as anything else. In the end, it turned out to be mostly C++, which is pretty hard to get right. And for god sake, learn about secure programming. Filtering inputs, careful with system() in PHP, careful with pointers and arrays in C.
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10-15-2013, 11:06 AM #23Temporarily Suspended
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I was around 11 or 12 when I started learning how to program. For me, the best way to learn was to come up with an idea for a programming project and then to make it happen.
Start out small and then use google as a reference. Many people have already asked questions similar to yours, and many others have answered them. Starting out small also allows you to understand what you're actually doing. For example, if I wanted to pull up some data from a database in PHP, I could google for a code snippet that someone else wrote. If I know nothing about programming, I start studying the code line by line to learn its function. Luckily, PHP has a good online manual too.
I can't recommend any books off the top of my head. I didn't find books very useful particularly because they never talked about code for things I wanted to create anyway.0
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10-15-2013, 11:32 AM #24Newbie
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Give http://www.codecademy.com/ a go, I only tried it recently but it seems nice if you want to get started.
The selection of languages is small, but any is a good start try Python!0
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10-20-2013, 11:32 PM #25WHT Addict
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I learn from college, however you can learn online tutsplus.com is good place to start. They have really good video tutorials.
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