Would you teach me how to be a programmer?
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u could start by getting some visual basic books like sam's teach yourself visual basic 2010. it has structured itself to be learnt in 24 days ie. 1hr per day
the books are your best bet now
the books are your best bet now
I don't think so. Becoming a decent programmer takes months, good luck finding somebody to take that much time out of their lives.
No.dryo said:
It's not that easy to teach people, it might be easier for you to google and figure it out on your own, thats how I learned a lot of what I know. Though I started out with "VB6 for dummies" when I was still in primary school
But it didn't start to get serious until I switched to a different language, and google has been a loyal asset in the past few years.
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There are some nice tutorials to get started on the internet.
I started off with these for C++ (though I haven't done much since
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http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/console/Lesson12008.php
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/program_structure/
I started off with these for C++ (though I haven't done much since
http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/console/Lesson12008.php
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/program_structure/
Everyone teached themself I guess. Or checked tutorials.
Other than that, I don't think programmers are
THIS BIG in their quality of programming.
Other than that, I don't think programmers are
THIS BIG in their quality of programming.
The Head First books are a great way to get started. But remember, your quality of programming will NEVER be as good as someone who had classes / went to uni and studied computer science.
You can only learn so much by yourself, if you really want to become a good programmer you need to take classes, trust me.
You can only learn so much by yourself, if you really want to become a good programmer you need to take classes, trust me.
Skye07 said:
With this you are implying that amongst the vast majority of homebrew developers and hackers scene there aren't ANY good programmers.
How can you even be half ignorant enough to believe so?
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You may learn the fundamentals from people and schooling, but the real meat of programming, imo, is from your own learning/research/testing, and just plain goofing around with code to see what can and cannot work, to see how changing something makes a difference in the end result, and how to improve them based on how you want things done.
Like others have said, it's not something you can learn overnight. It may even take months or years before you get a real grasp on the concept. It takes time (a lot of it) and patience (a lot of that too).
Like others have said, it's not something you can learn overnight. It may even take months or years before you get a real grasp on the concept. It takes time (a lot of it) and patience (a lot of that too).
Mazor said:
Because it's true! Compare coding done by someone with a programming degree to coding by someone who learnt it by themselves and you'll see who's got the cleanest most extensible code. I'm not saying they can't code at all and some are more gifted than others but learning to code on your own won't be enough if you want to design high quality code. See http://education.internet.com/articles/sel...the-difference/
Head First Software Development & Head First Object Oriented Analysis are 2 books to get you started on the programming paradigm rather than explaining language specific things. Also HF Design Patterns is a good thing to check out.
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