How to start with coding?
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I know literally nothing about coding or anything,but it could be useful to others and I that wish to know how. Please tell me softwares, languages and such, and how long it took to become good at it. Use simplified languages aswell, as a previousoy said I know NOTHING about coding. Also I want to eventually be able to make android games and apps, if thats good to know.
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Start off with something small, like HTML or autoscript, just to learn their syntax and how the language works. Make a few projects, nothing too big. Buy a book on that language you chose and focus on it. When you feel you can make a largeish project, do so. If it turns out decent, then you can jump in on harder languages like Python, maybe even C++.
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@Schicko (View Post)
HTML isn't a programming language.
@ShadowPlasma (View Post)
Start with learning how stuff works, not even in aspect of coding. To program you have to be good with computers, and, probably, basic algorithms. -
For your own sake, do not start with HTML or autoscript.
I would recommend python as a beginner language, and specifically, this course:
https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython
It assumes no prior knowledge of programming, and a lot of the projects are making simple games like pong, so you get to have fun while learning.
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Python is good because the syntax is easy to learn and its really lightweight.
By just learning how to use loops and importing a few modules you can create some pretty cool geometric art
here is an example I made
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Still is good though!
On Topic: This is a life saver, thank you for posting this thread and link.
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@ShadowPlasma
Don't listen to mniip complaining about Python :P. He's a old Lua guy. Lua is far more lightweight but I wouldn't really really recommend it.
Python is a awesome language for beginners. To add some points, it's EASY to setup and comes with pretty much everything you'll need, and if it isn't there already you can setup what you need really easy too.
I'd recommend you to get some tutorial or book in your native language, and if you're comfortable with english or german there's a pretty awesome web-based tutorial from the computer science circles of the university of Waterloo. Here in English and Here in GermanEdited once by nucular. Last: 23rd Feb 2014 -
DAYUM! I was about to post about Lua D:
EDIT: If you're gonna do Lua I recommend you use FeynmanLogomaker's LET to generate some boilerplate code then try to understand and manually edit it, that's how I started
EDITEDIT: Disregard that if you're not talking about TPT :P
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