How did you learn to code, Sup Forums?

how did you learn to code, Sup Forums?

By getting a shitty HTML tag tattoo

Google you cunt

Tutorials

that just makes me want to cut her neck through in the middle

self taught

html isn't coding

Method of scientific fingeru.

codecademy. twas pretty great. learned python, then lua, then C, C++, Java, etc. Still think python is one of my favorite languages, scripting or not. Object oriented is better for bigger projects, but it's harder to learn.

Coding isn't a real word.

>be me
>start highschool
>enroll in the comp-sci equivalent of highschool
>start C/C++ class
>enjoy it, teacher is also a really good teacher
>later get into uC programming
the end

look snappahead, if a whole continent without proper sewage or any significant infrastructure can learn to become an IT hub, your lazy first world ass can...fucking try, fail, try some more, fail, cry, then keep trying

Back in the early 90s when you had to type out your html for angelfire / geocities.

Yes it is, dumbass.

cod·ing
ˈkōdiNG/Submit
noun
the process of assigning a code to something for the purposes of classification or identification.

Markup languages are considered to be code, but not programming.

cppreference and a lot of time

html, css, and javascript i used a shit app called SoloLearn that has recently become total garbage would not recommend.

Wouldn't that make HTML coding?

Check codecombat.com

in the 90s i used books, now i use codecademy.
there are tons of sites like it, but i enjoy that one the most.

Yes. HTML is code, but not programming. is wrong.

...

I'm not the guy that said HTML isn't coding.

university/job/stackoverflow

I don't think this page is a good place to answer such a question, but I'll bite.
I started as a kid with 9 years. I didn't know what "programming" was, and I didn't have internet access (this was early 90s) but I found "qbasic", and though: "what's this odd editor?", and started reading the help, which contained info on all the instructions.
Started doing basic stuff like a quizz, then a graphical analog clock, and stuff.
Then learned other shitty languages, and finally learned what was I doing, started doing PHP, Java, JS, Python...
Nowadays I earn my living doing mainly JS (ES6 stuff, with React).

Starting 92
-Basic/qbasic
-Borland C
-TASM (Borland assembly)
-Borland C+
-MASM (Microsoft assembly)
-other shit
-stopped programming in 99

>with 9 years
foreign? that's quite interesting.
all your other English is extremely clear, btw.

is this an instruction for is-beheaders?

gorillas.bas
good times

Do you miss it? I know it's 19 years later but talking to my team lead in work I think he genuinely regrets taking on a managerial roll. Makes me sad, dude just loves getting involved and helping out with the code when times get tough

Got an MTA in software development. Pretty basic entry level shit to do with c#

That's near enough a perfect description of me user.

I finished in around 2006 though after finishing up a with vb.net and tsql

>became disillusioned and bored with that side of tech.

self taught.. books only
My first program was a nasm console program named hello outputting "I love you mommy!"

Yes, English is my 2nd language (Spanish being the first), and I'm not really that careful when writing here. Sorry, and thanks user!

Yup, it was lots of fun. I later wrote my own version of it using VB in the institute. It was crude as heck, but I learned a lot doing it, specially the "computer AI".

Yes. I am a retard.

I only programmed to hack shit, never took it seriously. Now I "can't" program (I mean I can just I am old now and no where near as proficient).

I have a shit job, made lots of bad decisions career wise and fucking broke.

self taught here. then I tried taking classes but the school was trash and just taught how to use ms visual studio. didn't learn shit that route.

Oh yeah I got into VB back in like version 3 or 4 though.

As I said in another post though, I never really programmed with intent and stopped, and well I probably should have took it seriously and kept at it.

Ah god damn man, but, it's never to late to start enjoying programming again. Maybe you won't get a job in it but you can certainly have fun again

Just finished two semesters of C++. I still have no idea what I'm doing.

what have you been using python for?

Forgot to add, before really knowing what I was doing, I spent a lot of time writing code for the mIRC client, which had a pretty powerful scripting language.
I learned a lot about networking with it. I wrote a simple mail client, a web server, a MSN-to-IRC gateway, and lots of crazy stuff, including a couple of online games which worked over IRC, including the classic Trivial, and other more graphic ones like a "Tron".
Lots of wasted effort, but I guess I wouldn't be where I am now without that experiences.

lol yeah well its hard when you have a young family. My kid is 4. Spending time with him is more important than relearning that skill.

But to anyone looking to learn, I think you should build a strong base, understand how the code really works and what actually happens in the background, learns some good maths, and you can make lots of money and have a good life.

memes

Welp, you'll be teaching him to code soon enough I'll bet haha Scratch then minecraft modding is what my nephews went through

OOP harder learn...

I assume below 90.

I wanted to write my own phishing site for runescape. I made a runescape phisher I was happy. I phished kids all day long for there gps.
made more money back then than i do now lecturing. bad times.

Yeah my kid loves minecraft. He is just starting to get the jist of the game, we play in creative mode.

Once I get his core maths foundations built I will start getting him to code. He just turned 4 at the end of Nov. He is beginning to understand simple/basic math. He gets that 1+1 is 2, and that 2+2 is 4. Still working on it though.

He won't be a fuck-story like me, lol.

Otherwise though, yeah. Like you boss, getting down in it, and coding is loads of fun.

For me it's the complexities and thought processes that make it enjoyable. Problem solving etc.

Google, YouTube, Stackoverflow.
I used to be a cook.

WHY TF DID YOU LEARN LUA

should i learn C++ as my first language, i've learnt extremely basic html but have forgot most of it.

app lol

College (the type you go to from 16-18)

So can someone give me a basic rundown on coding? Ive been interested on trying something new but i don't know exactly what it does or how to do it

there is a website called google, you might want to start with that, people say that you can get answer to any question there!

Dude no fucking way, how much BTC does it cost to access?

Someone offered me $50 to fix something on their website a long time ago, things kind of snowballed from there.

More like use google to search for stackoverflow questions

i looked at page sources in 1998 and learned coding slowly by copying and pasting. eventually mom got me some html book. at gymnasium (whatever that is in USA) i learned ASP and SQL. at university i finally learned Java, then you unlock most other languages (learning them fast).

you write stuff, compile it to machine code, then run it. that's coding. if you skip compiling you are scripting.

>Sup Forums - Random
about three fidy

/scripting

college made me take a sequence of 3 programming classes. I dont like it or hate it, but I dont have to do it now.

Bought a C++ for dummies book

>over 52000 USD
shiiiet

Bots

I haven’t learnt coding properly yet but I have been doing a triple i.t. Subject in college. Later I found out that I could redo college and get a better subject like a year on computer science so that I could follow up on it.
So far I have been doing some python in my free time and learning a bit with my teacher in free time. When I finish my triple i.t. Course (not specialised) I will go to college again and then uni.
Btw I am 18 cuz it’s my decline year

by myself
in a 486
with a 14in grayscale screen
without google or even internet
>mfw

what kind of music do you recommend for coding?
I'm bored and all my songs are overplayed. Unfortunately can't code without music.

Can any of you recommend me a good way to learn c++

I honestly gave up about 5 times.
Every time I get to pointers and memory management I want to kms

You never actually do tbh

You just get better at not knowing what you are doing and asking google the right questions.

skip c++ and start with python or javascript

Taught myself. Online tutoring is ok but way too slow

I already did it ~ 4 years ago,
I'm pretty confident in my ability to code in python and javascript, I also know how to JAVA +- and assembly.

Any self taught programmers who managed to make a living?

you know assembly and don't understand c++? don't lie kiddo

sssssssssssssssss yes im a preofeddional. i,m a very professional.
Google Duke Zuur

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River . . .

traffic lights

Assembly is quite simple when you don't go too extreme. It's a retarded language.

C++ tho, too complicated

pretty much. also, a lot of man pages.

They teach assembly in first year computer science... ie. age 16-18. The concepts are not difficult. You have to be a brainlet to understand all the programming concepts of C++.

well.... cpus are retarded. it's made of simpler instructions. but it's harder to write and understand and keep track of registers and interruptions and whatnot. it's the closest language to machine language. c++ is quite high level, therefore easier. I think you didn't pass the hello world there.

EH?
Well go I/Ostream your .h you fucking idiots. Google taylor. Dumb fucking rooked trucks, you bent cunts. You dead- guys.

We won.

stupid dumb~ass fucking street signs.

How much time do you guys think I'll need to learn Python? I'm completely new to the topic and started a codeacademy course a couple of days ago.

me. I'm not millionaire (yet? kek) but I live alone and have my car.

i have blue gator aide
stupid fucking street signs

what do you do? web? embedded?

learning

Depends. Is this your first language? There are a few hurdles in Python that beginners struggle with. If you are coming from another language then it shouldn't take more than a few weeks to get going.

memorizing?

All the advice above is good but one of the best things you can do is to pick a project that YOU find personally useful. I learned C++ after hours to automate the boring parts of my day job. I have never been so much in the zone and I learned with passion.

The software package turned my 8 hour day's worth of work into a few minutes of work. Then a lot of goofing off until I got a better job :3

Yup, I have absolutely no experience in any kind of coding. Created a webpage or two (very basic ones and like 10-15 years ago) and that was it.

NCR dev here, all I can tell you is do not ask Sup Forums for this kind of shit, get a book, it could be C or C++ or whatever, it doesn't matter, just learn the basics, the syntaxis is something trivial, I have been developing POS software for the past 10 years and I still need to check the syntaxis from time to time, it doesn't really matter, all you have to do is to learn the basics.

I use to do anything. Name a language or platform, I probably did something there. Web (php, asp, ruby, python, flash), desktop (.net, java mainly, vb way back ago, I even touched some cpp code), embedded only with arduino, mobile (andriod, ios, windows, symbian (the old nokia thing). Surely I'm missing something.

Today, you may have to give me one millon dollars to do that. I'm tired and I have like one neuron sane left. I build my web framework and I'm doing web and management systems but all in the cloud (web).

You all should check edX, courses made by Harvard, Microsoft, MIT and other top universities and companies. All for free.
Also, solo learn. Also, if you know Polish, (nobody apart from natives does), google "wazniak MIMUW"
C++ is not necessary a best first language to learn. I'd learned python 3 before C++, and I don't experience any problems with that. But you'll have to know both of them if any, C++ is useful for python (I used this symbiosis within my program that plays game and uses AI)
And one advice, if you want to make complex programs, not only bots and, dunno, guis, but data science, big data, and everything around AI, you've got to learn math. Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Numerical Methods.
Math really help in optimization.

How did you start? Went to college, or just hated your job and learned programming?

If you want respect programming isn't a good profession. You could create a masterpiece but noone will understand the amount of work you put into it. Meanwhile if you built a beautiful house you can explain it so that anyone in the world understands and can be impressed. Programming is also very lonely, it is not for those who wants social connections.

I never had a job. I got my first client when I was 14 yo.

I learnt with an old pc under dos, using the help files of qbasic (didn't name it) which had the whole documentation and samples from the borland cpp. I learnd playing basically, trying to understand how thing worked. That sterile enviroment tought me to think the algorithms rather than to code, that's why it's so easy to me to learn a new language. And thats the fucking key. Don't learn to code, learn to program. Learn logic.

By the time I was 13 I think, I had built a webpage stating that I was a software factory and whatnot, and clients just started writting to me. And that's how all started.

that's because everyone is so stupid to understand it (hey, by your logic)

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By not wanting to do menial repetitive tasks
Laziness

that's my point exactly. programming is very advanced and great programmers deserve a ton of respect but they get nil because nobody except them understand the work they do. so i just warn that if you want respect (as some do) don't get into programming.

You forgot *tips fedora* over there mate

Whats so hard to understand? assembly basics are easier (for me) than memory management in C++, therefore I'm struggling with it.

No need to act like a 1337 h4x0r faggot

I can not answer that question - I can just code-ing, and never learned it