How to get started programming - seriously
Hey guys. I graduated from school with a liberal arts degree and have recently become serious about wanting to learn to program. I’m smart and have the will to do this, I just need to know how to get started, and ultimately how to look for jobs. Any basic advice for someone who knows nothing? Please help. What will learning python or R do for me if anything? and wtf is leetcode (seems to be for shit coders so maybe a future option for me?). Thanks so much.
Most critical thing to do is learn how to google. It may seem harsh but it’s the truth. First you have to decide what path you want to take web, backend, imbedded, ect
I just tried to learn everything and now I'm good at nothing so they put me in management
agreed. Google is your best friend. learn programming concepts and the syntax becomes 1000x easier to pick up so you can Google your way through whatever language you latch onto. Me? I started with C , then pearl and now I just Google whatever because I don't write it, but I do have to debug and fix it
Bootcamp is probably your best option
Ty. What’s the best one in your opinion?
I don't know I'm sorry. I graduated with a tech degree
My advice is to start playing with data. Learn Data visualisations tools and then some statistical techniques! Take a course in sql, excel, then R and maybe Python. After you learn some basics about statistics, data try to learn some algorithms how they work, find examples in google (e.g stack overflow) and be able to read some Sql, R, Python functions. Then try to replicate. As you going, you can try to learn from some courses available online such as coursera. Use youtube a lot. It’s not hard to learn. You just need to practice a lot.
Albertsons has a great internship program
So does your mom
I highly recommend going through basecs along with your programming practice
https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs What he said^ You have to start somewhere - and I think some of the MOOC's available online will get your gears spinning. Eg: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-science
If you are smart why did you get a liberal arts degree?
100% agree with this statement
You didn’t state where you are in the world. This may impact certain resources being available to you or not. Also, it may help To narrow down what field of development you want to go into. Mobile? Web? Backend? Middleware? Finance industry? Too many vague options to give you an opinionated answer If you don’t know, take some online CS courses until you do have a direction.
Go back to school and get an engineering degree
Exactly. How could he think Leetcode is a shit option if he doesn't know how to code at all in the first place? Everyone has to start somewhere. If going back to school isn't an option, then you'll need to do online training or a boot camp.
In all seriousness, the best way to learn to code is to just go and do it. Identify a problem and figure out how to solve it. That's really how most of IT is in general.
OP, the answer here is very simple, but it's not easy. 1. Take Harvard's CS50 course 2. teachyourselfcs.com
join bootcamp
Can you recommend the best one? I want one that focuses on CS topics like data structures and algorithms since I didn’t study CS in school and will need to one day compete for a job
Air Force boot camp is easy