Number three, reading. This is a must for programming. If you do not like reading, then programming is not for you. Asking questions on forms is a great way to develop skills and learn ways around problems. But reading is the source where you will glean all your information from. Forums can be flooded with opinions and it is hard to find a teacher on the same frequency to your needs. Adding to this, make sure you get the right book for your needs. Do not go getting an advanced book if you are beginning to take it slow and get each concept down as it comes. Compile the code when asked to compile the code within the book. At the end of each chapter, I like to look back and try to write a program that shows my skills. Then if I am having problems with it, I know to look back to that chapter.
And I was fiddling with basic programming most of the code that you would copy down is not certainly available on disc or cassette tape for that matter. But it was printed code in magazines and sometimes they will be like 74 pages of printed code and you will have to set it up in like a recipe holder sorts and you would have to type in, you have to key in every command, every poke and every peak and every goes up only to get to the end to learn that you had some kind of error and you look at it. It is a bright copy. I have done exactly the same way! Because someone who is doing the translation for the magazine may have mistaken an I of a one or zero for the letter O and that ended my interest programming real quick.
Moving on, number four, patience is very important. Keep going if your code is not working. Take step back and think what you have done wrong. Learn how to use the debugger or go back to a book and read up on the area which you think you made a mistake. Many language books are made for directly learning as well as referencing. Do not feel embarrassed if you have to look at your beginner book again because you forgot how to do something. It is only going to benefit you, your code and the people that use your code. Adding to this, if you feel like you are going nowhere with fast focus, or I should say if you feel like you are going nowhere, fast focus on where you are going now and where you are now. Think how these concepts apply practically to development in any situation and you should soon be back on track.
Number five, you have decided to do it so be enthusiastic about the language you are learning, join the community about that language talk and chat about concepts you are learning and cool ways you have learned to utilize them. If you need help, just ask. But make sure it is the right place. Also if you want to gain development, do not start there. Start with the language, learn the language, mingle in the area you aspire or you are aspiring to get into, I should say.
People will appreciate it if you took the time to learn the language before you started developing. Failure is an option. Remember this, as people will criticize your code but this is in the hopes that you will allow or you will be allowed and it will enable you to become a better programmer. Have fun and enjoy programming.
This is a fast growing field. I am from the state of Aiwa, I went to the University of Northern Aiwa you and I, go panthers! And there are a lot of people in the business college who study Cobol, does anybody use Cobol? Yes. A lot of legacy applications in the accounting field apparently where I have really on Cobol, yes it is ancient but those programs still work quite well.
I think even Latin is a dead language. I mean the language Latin is a dead language but we still know it, right? I think once a programmer line which is out there if he gains any note or ID or any acceptance, especially in the mass market, I think it will be here for a while. Punch cards. I never had to learn on punch cards. I think that would have ended my short even quicker I tell you.
Cobol Fortran - if you do not know these words. And some people will say they program HTML. I do not consider HTML programming a language. It is a language, the Hyper Text Mark up Language. But knowing and learning HTML does not make you a programmer. They are two different things. It is a Mark up Language meaning if I do a bold in HTML, the Tag B close Tag B, everything in between it is bold. I did not program that, I just marked it up. I marked up that text and to program something, it would be to make it do something. So like java script will be a script. You would program a java script, a PHP that would be a scripting language. That is in programming PHP, you do not program HTML you merely use HTML to mark up text.
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