What's the best way to learn programming?

QwertyKey
Sat, 08 May 2010 22:19:26 +0000

I’m learning too… Look at this thread, which is on this same page… http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/925445-project-euler.html

Anyway, first, pick a language. Some people above made some suggestions, and you could also look at Ruby on Rails (I don’t know anything about it, but I noticed a lot of jobs have that on a list of qualifications, and no one mentioned it previously, so I’m throwing it out there). Second, learn how to do something with it (you can find tutorials all over the Internet, and there are thousands of books for every language…) You should be able to do math with it, create function calls, be able to read from and write to files, and use vectors/arrays. Then, find problems or assignments wherever you can to try to solve. The place I mention in the thread I posted at the top of this message seems good.

For what it’s worth on picking a language, I took 1 semester of C++, and I’m trying to learn Python right now. Those two seemed to be the most demanded languages to what I saw on job postings, though I saw plenty wanting VBA, Java, C/C#, and Ruby on Rails.