I've been busy the past couple of days setting up Visual Studio and working on some projects, was thinking of making a live ticker that shows you the price of BTC at the moment, have to work around getting the data from a site. More or less it's a proof of concept for myself, that I can actually take the knowledge I do have of C# and use it.
Any other suggestions guys, I'm trying to think of a project. Maybe a simple ircbot or something.
Topic: Learning something new! (Read 968 times)
That's what I was thinking myself, probably something simple like a website look up or something to that nature. I just wanted to get my own and others feet wet and see how simple some languages can be. I'll have to think on this one, because I haven't actually thought ahead about this just what I'm doing now.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the suggestion!
Interesting TED Talk: Try something new every 30 days.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
It's interesting you bring up those talks because that's part of the reason why I'm actually doing this. I'm in a downtime between school and finding work, so I figured why not learn something in the meantime. I'm doing something productive. I've also looked into learning a new language (speaking) to fill in the gap between this time and keep my mind occupied.
I've watched like a billion talks about stuff like this, I really enjoy them and it helps me feel productive!
UPDATE: I will probably be moving on to more complicated matters, like something beyond "Hello world" but I can't figure out what to do yet. Any suggestions?
I've tried a few codecademy courses; I don't think I can remember anything without looking it up lol
Perhaps you should try something a bit more complex than "hello world" in each language? A simple app?
There are a wide variety of resources available just to learn the basics of programming until you can get your hands on a programming course, or get a better feel for it. It's great how many things you can find online today, that's mostly how I've learned is self taught. I am going back to school for a CS degree, but anything I can do until I actually start working on programming classes, this is pretty much all self taught.
Newbies usually start out with W3Schools www.w3schools.com .Its quiet good for beginners but when you more seriously want to take you within those things then should star taking professional programming classes.
I love doing programming in c and c++ . when I was in college it was my favorite subject . I like to go for lab of c and c++ .I also want to enhance my knowledge further.
Interesting TED Talk: Try something new every 30 days.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
It's interesting you bring up those talks because that's part of the reason why I'm actually doing this. I'm in a downtime between school and finding work, so I figured why not learn something in the meantime. I'm doing something productive. I've also looked into learning a new language (speaking) to fill in the gap between this time and keep my mind occupied.
I've watched like a billion talks about stuff like this, I really enjoy them and it helps me feel productive!
UPDATE: I will probably be moving on to more complicated matters, like something beyond "Hello world" but I can't figure out what to do yet. Any suggestions?
Interesting TED Talk: Try something new every 30 days.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
It's a pretty neat thing to try imo. You can learn a lot and pick up new hobbies.
Language for June 2: C!
I had to look this one up guys, I'm sorry I let you down!
This is more of just a lesson for me, this is actually reteaching me things I've lost along the way, once upon a time i was pretty proficient in a handful of languages and I lost all of that but now doing this is actually helping me more than I think anyone will ever know. If you get any help out of this, you are welcome. That's what I'm doing this for, I'm doing it for the community to, for that newbie programmer.
I might move on from loops to other types of programming lessons, or whatever in the next series.
Until then!
I had to look this one up guys, I'm sorry I let you down!
Code:
#include
int main()
{
for(int a=0;a<10; a = a + 1)
{
printf("value of a: %d\n", a);
}
return 0;
}
int main()
{
for(int a=0;a<10; a = a + 1)
{
printf("value of a: %d\n", a);
}
return 0;
}
This is more of just a lesson for me, this is actually reteaching me things I've lost along the way, once upon a time i was pretty proficient in a handful of languages and I lost all of that but now doing this is actually helping me more than I think anyone will ever know. If you get any help out of this, you are welcome. That's what I'm doing this for, I'm doing it for the community to, for that newbie programmer.
I might move on from loops to other types of programming lessons, or whatever in the next series.
Until then!
Today's language: Perl!
This one was a toughy for me, because I don't understand $ and @'s and what not so here we go, going with the same drill as before
and backwards even!
and that's Perl for ya, might take a break for a day as family business and illness is starting to wear on me. Check back though, maybe I'll get into a language like C or something.
This one was a toughy for me, because I don't understand $ and @'s and what not so here we go, going with the same drill as before
Code:
@a = qw('Barney, 'betty', 'fred', 'wilma');
foreach (@a) { print $_; }
foreach (@a) { print $_; }
and backwards even!
Code:
@flintstones = reverse @a;
print "@flintstones\n";
print "@flintstones\n";
and that's Perl for ya, might take a break for a day as family business and illness is starting to wear on me. Check back though, maybe I'll get into a language like C or something.
Hey thanks!
My looking at it is like this, if I can take little pieces of things and just learn something new each day that's preventing my brain from turning into a bigger pile of mush than it already is. Plus on the downtime from school I need *something* to do.
Trust me when I get to the harder languages it's gonna be more difficult, I'm starting out on the ones people most recommend starting out with.
My looking at it is like this, if I can take little pieces of things and just learn something new each day that's preventing my brain from turning into a bigger pile of mush than it already is. Plus on the downtime from school I need *something* to do.
Trust me when I get to the harder languages it's gonna be more difficult, I'm starting out on the ones people most recommend starting out with.
Most people don't like to learn, they dislike the position of learner, dislike the insecurity in front of new things, dislike the risk of failing on it, etc.
Good movement, good luck.
Good movement, good luck.
Today, I will be doing the same with javascript only in my favorite programming language those far: Ruby
I learned Ruby in the summer of 2006, from _why the lucky stiffs poignant guide, and I have to say it was by far the most amusing and confusing book that I've ever read in my life. He's a great storyteller no doubt, but his imagination and writing gets in the way of actual learning in some places.
Anyways here we go:
and for S.A.G's
And that's ruby for today, complete.
I learned Ruby in the summer of 2006, from _why the lucky stiffs poignant guide, and I have to say it was by far the most amusing and confusing book that I've ever read in my life. He's a great storyteller no doubt, but his imagination and writing gets in the way of actual learning in some places.
Anyways here we go:
Code:
a = [1,2,3]
a.each do |num|
puts a
end # prints out 1,2,3
a.each do |num|
puts a
end # prints out 1,2,3
and for S.A.G's
Code:
for each in a.reverse do
print a
end # prints out 3,2,1
print a
end # prints out 3,2,1
And that's ruby for today, complete.
Update 1: I started with javascript since it seems to be a language I could learn easily and it's accessible from my browser, and did a couple while/for loops
i also ended up doing it backwords
So javascript day 1:
Complete.
Code:
a = [1,2,3]
for (var i=0; i
for (var i=0; i
i also ended up doing it backwords
Code:
for (var i=a.length; i--;) { console.log(a[i]) };
So javascript day 1:
Complete.
i want to learn Pascal (it has past in it, and i like learning things_
I would like to learn programming too.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I'm not sure where I should start.
Search on Youtube, a few universities like Yale and Harvard offer free online courses on programming.
Yeah and there are MIT courses I think that also offer free programming classes online, I would have to find the link since I haven't used it myself in a while.
I would like to learn programming too.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I wanted to learn It too because I know that programmers gets really good salary and It has "over stocked' customers but I don't like the fact that you have to sit at the computer a lot and It's really bad for your eyes, I just can't last long looking at computer, my eyes gets hurt.
I guess working as a programmer would make your vision so much worse in just 4-6 years.. Because you would have to look at the computer for at least 8 hours a day or something I guess
That used to be true, but I think that was for older monitors, nowadays all monitors are LCD and flatscreens and I think they've gotten rid of that problem now, you do need to rest your eyes once in awhile though but that's just when doing lots of work generally.
Yeah, and remember to blink
And keep breaks time to time.
And if you have that old monitor, buy new one.
I would like to learn programming too.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I wanted to learn It too because I know that programmers gets really good salary and It has "over stocked' customers but I don't like the fact that you have to sit at the computer a lot and It's really bad for your eyes, I just can't last long looking at computer, my eyes gets hurt.
I guess working as a programmer would make your vision so much worse in just 4-6 years.. Because you would have to look at the computer for at least 8 hours a day or something I guess
That used to be true, but I think that was for older monitors, nowadays all monitors are LCD and flatscreens and I think they've gotten rid of that problem now, you do need to rest your eyes once in awhile though but that's just when doing lots of work generally.
I would like to learn programming too.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I'm not sure where I should start.
Search on Youtube, a few universities like Yale and Harvard offer free online courses on programming.
Okay, thanks for tip.
Do you have any suggestion which channel I should look?
I would like to learn programming too.
I'm not sure where I should start.
I'm not sure where I should start.
Search on Youtube, a few universities like Yale and Harvard offer free online courses on programming.
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