Where did you learn programming? - Developers

I want to know, and state what language you learned.

Currently learning Java in my schools computer lab. Shouldn't you have that too?

[QUOTE=jjsullivan;28000768]Currently learning Java in my schools computer lab. Shouldn't you have that too?[/QUOTE] just interested where you people learn stuff. and i'm not in university yet though. thinking about starting early.

Websites, books. In college I took a class, but 95% of it was stuff I knew. Most of what I've learned is experience in making stuff.

I tried to teach myself c++, but it wasn't until I took an class on my states online highschool that I got over the initial hump. Although I think it was mostly I had fucking clue how to start. All the class really did (that I couldn't have done myself) was get me through compiling my first program. After that, I was able to build on my knowledge on my own.

I learned to program via Game Maker's GML language. The Worst

In high school c#, and now in uni java.

Python, I picked up this Python book "For kids", and shit was so easy then.

Learned a subset of Commodore 64 Basic V2 via some C64 magazine, then ActionScript 2/Flash (7 I think), Object Pascal (Delphi) via some Kids Programming book, C++ via two books, practice and the Internet, Java in School (and Internet, since our teacher was shit), C# via the Internet and recently some Scheme. I can't do the C64 Basic V2 anymore, and also back then I couldn't do much; just a little playing around as a child. Delphi was kinda fun, though I never did anything serious. I learned AS2 with trial and error, the documentation and some tutorials. The language itself was quite easy I remember, but I never spend time to make more than minigames. I'd call myself very proficient with C++. I also picked up some C. With Java and C# I can easily write stuff, but the code will probably be not optimally optimized, not using the language features to their full extend and I might be carrying useless C++ paradigms along. Not yet very good with Scheme, though I learned some interesting structures for functional programming. Just learning it to prepare for university.

The internet. C#, Perl, some C++, Lua.

I wanted to cheat in a game some 7 years ago, and just kinda picked up AutoIt and got reading. After I got into that I just kinda went with whatever I needed, or wanted to learn. Never used anything but google.

Me and an Internet friend started practicing Delphi together some 8-9 years ago. I think I've learned pretty much everything I know about programming on my own. With the exception of Haskell; I studied the basics for that from a tutorial. [editline]12th February 2011[/editline] I need to find the guy, I haven't heard from him in 4 years

The internet and my dad. I first learned Python, and now I'm learning C++.

I had used Game Maker for a while and then I decided to learn C++ using tutorials.

C, in here [url]http://www.psp-programming.com/tutorials/[/url]

I've tried to do it on my own, but every book/localised tutorial site assumed that I know how to handle pointers (I don't), so I had to wait until my school started a programming class.

i only know 1 language... its called "PAWNO", its the SA-MP.com coding language i learnt it by editing everyones scrips. AKA changing the credits of everyones scripts.

Teaching myself a little C++ in my spare time.

At home, with a copy of K&R, and again a few months later, with a copy of SICP.

Learned very basic semantics about programming (just what functions, methods and events are) because my school uses Alice for some reason*. Everything else is self-taught C++. *I can't believe why some teachers think that it's a great program since it's too damn slow, missing important functionality and the functionality it does have isn't implemented well. I could have learned more by using pencil, paper and flow charts.

[QUOTE=Vrondakis;28005618]i only know 1 language... its called "PAWNO", its the SA-MP.com coding language i learnt it by editing everyones scrips. AKA changing the credits of everyones scripts.[/QUOTE] Pawno is an editor, the language is called "pawn" I learned the basics from reading python tutorials, and google. I've been messing with android app development lately, and google provides some great resources

I learnt C# behind a crt monitor... Thank god I'm not using that any more...

I taught myself basic (simple I/O, etc.) BASIC about 8 years ago.

I learnt VB6 with a relative and moved on after 6 years to Vb2008 witch I picked up quite quick and last year I got into C# with what I learnt there and a little rudimentary c++ know how.

Visual Basic 6 at school.

I started off in Programming 11, with Java.

Taught myself PHP, then C#.

I "started" with C#, the stopped, tried some C++, stopped that too, then PHP and now I am using C# again.

A (useless) Computing course in high school introduced me to VB. Shortly afterwards, I started learning Lua because of GMod. I'm now entirely self-taught in every language I do, since I'm not going to Uni until 2012 - being Lua,VB, a little C++, PHP and Javascript.

I was determined to go into game design by the time I was ~11, so I googled c++ and found cplusplus.com. After I went through those tutorials, I got a book and went from there. I'm in robotics now instead of game design but everything I learned is still damn useful.