As someone looking to get into coding. - Developers

What would you guys suggest should be my first foray into the coding world. I feel I can pick stuff up at a decent pace, but I wouldn't want 2 just dive in head first and confuse the shit out of myself. How did u guys get started out?

[QUOTE=madeforwar;48921631]What would you guys suggest should be my first foray into the coding world. I feel I can pick stuff up at a decent pace, but I wouldn't want 2 just dive in head first and confuse the shit out of myself. How did u guys get started out?[/QUOTE] Hello world. You need to learn to use your tools before you learn to program.

What do you mean by that?

[QUOTE=madeforwar;48921653]What do you mean by that?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_python3_online.php[/url]

Yeah sorry it's s bit early for me, I should really have known that's what you were talking about.

[QUOTE=elevate;48921645]Hello world. You need to learn to use your tools before you learn to program.[/QUOTE] That doesn't help him at all. He really needs to know what language to start with and links to some good tutorials. I can't give that advice because I came at programming from an unconventional direction, but saying 'Hello world' doesn't do much

[QUOTE=Maloof?;48921733]That doesn't help him at all. He really needs to know what language to start with and links to some good tutorials. I can't give that advice because I came at programming from an unconventional direction, but saying 'Hello world' doesn't do much[/QUOTE] Yeah this sounds like the kind of thing I was thinking of. Any help with direction would be greatly appreciated.

Python's a good starting point. It's simple enough for getting started to be easy and it's widely used. [url]https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python[/url]

[QUOTE=Perl;48921867]Python's a good starting point. It's simple enough for getting started to be easy and it's widely used. [url]https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python[/url][/QUOTE] Thanks man this looks like a great starting point. People on this forum are so helpful at times!

Python or Java. They teach both in college, and you can do pretty much anything with both. Python was created with the intention of being a language to teach programming with but it's still a very useful language. If you ask 4chan though they'll tell you to read the structure and interpretation of computer programs, which I'm still not sure if it's a meme or not

4chan is nothing but memes, never ever take advice from them.

You can use this game to teach you, honestly it's quite fun. [url]http://colobot.info/colobot-gold-edition/[/url]

Yeah i will avoid 4chan, but the rest of u guys thanks 4 the great info.

Yeah I started out looking at c++, but I feel that is just a step 2 far for the level I'm at. I'm really not looking 2 go 2 college again as I just can't handle structured learning due 2 my adhd.

[QUOTE=nikomo;48928120]4chan is nothing but memes, never ever take advice from them.[/QUOTE] It's not a good starter book but I really enjoy SICP. All the stuff like algorithms and data structures and Big-O notation are covered in it and it's a really good textbook for all the theoretical stuff in CS that aren't answered in a Java tutorial. But once again, not good for beginners

[QUOTE]As a person who started c++ 2 weeks ago, I find that, once you leave some complications and prejudices behind, like setting up your working environment or some basic theory about what a compiler is , what linking is, how memory works etc., c++ wouldn't be that hard.[/QUOTE] This right here. When I started C++ years ago (my first language) it sucked because there is so much to learn, but once you get past the initial learning curve you can do some really cool shit. Sometimes C++ still can make me feel like :vomit:

I think learning a typed language would be best for beginners. C# and Java is what I'd recommend, because most code examples I see are in these languages or in C++.

I'm with C# as 1st language. It can do a lot while being a lot more forgiving than C++. It is also easier to read for a beginner than it is to read C++.