Shaman Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Hello all! I'm Planning on starting to learn coding soon but I'm a bit stumped as to where to start. One of the ones that I am planning on learning is HTML5 and I believe I've found what appears to be a decent site. I was wondering peoples thoughts on it (http://www.w3schools.com/). To me it appears pretty decent and actually has a huge amount of info on a good deal of different languages. The other one is the one that I am a little stumped on where to start with. I would like to learn python but don't know where to begin (yes I know of http://www.python.org) but it's a little confusing with the tutorials which is where I don't know where to start. I have some C++ books that I could start learning that on but I've been told by friends its better to start with python to get into coding. Thoughts? Edit: Regarding python I found a website call Codecademy that seems interesting. Has anyone heard of it or used it? Edited December 1, 2014 by Alten_Geist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa John Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Code Academy is fantastic and it is free (it also has a lesson on HTML/CSS/PHP/ect.). I would choose that one over w3schools because it is more interactive and structured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaman Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Code Academy is fantastic and it is free (it also has a lesson on HTML/CSS/PHP/ect.). I would choose that one over w3schools because it is more interactive and structured. Excellent! I'll be starting it tonight then. It is something I've been needing to do for awhile. Esp since not knowing coding at all screws having the other knowledge (from my experience) because companies want people who can code. Edited December 1, 2014 by Alten_Geist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
->SK<- Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 if you're looking to get started in coding, start off with something like Java. I know it's not used in anything other than...Java based apps but it's a very good language to grasp as it has near perfect similarities to languages such as C++/C# etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaman Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 if you're looking to get started in coding, start off with something like Java. I know it's not used in anything other than...Java based apps but it's a very good language to grasp as it has near perfect similarities to languages such as C++/C# etc. I'll definitely check into it. Right now I'm looking into Python because I had an interview with a company called Transparent Languages and everything went really well but they told me that once I had some Python knowledge to reapply (Only bad thing they said about the interview). Looking at the website it would appear they have a Java one as well so will be easy to move onto that once comfy enough with Python. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oreo Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) Python is a great language to start with, it isn't very strict and it's not really so much the language you use either, as it is the concepts behind programming, and the easier the language the easier the concepts are to learn. Once you get the basics down it shouldn't be hard to pick up on the nuances of different languages. Edited December 2, 2014 by Oreo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-O-P-rime Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 if you're dumbfounded with a bunch of the stuff, the most basic language is pascal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnPrePared_ Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Code academy is good for webscripting and w3schools will help you out in some cases. If you want to learn C# a must thing you need is Visual studio (2008, 2010, 2012) this site helped my out as well http://www.dotnetperls.com/ I've coded a lot of games in it like a calculator, hangman, dragrace, iTunes store (currently busy on it) And I do use Arduino(written in C), codesys (more embedded system way) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaman Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 Thank you all for the encouragement! I've now started on the Python course on Codecademy and so far it's probably the easiest I've looked into yet (Have not checked out Pascal). Rather excited about all this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue :D Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 In my opinion, Python has the easiest concept to grasp in to the world of coding Moving on after python, I would suggest Java (as SKay said) it has a similar syntax structure to other languages After those two, you should branch out to what you need / interests you, personally I went for C after learning Java and learning Java helped my understanding of the syntax. good luck :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camperfriend Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I learnt coding on khan academy I know my shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giants745 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I learnt coding on khan academy I know my shit Doesn't that have many different type of courses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaman Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 I learnt coding on khan academy I know my shit Found out about Khan Academy through one of the students on my bus. Seems interesting. I have this entire week off and its going to be a healthy mix of gaming and learning (provided I don't get sucked into DayZ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dode Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Codeacademy is great. Once you get the basics there are plenty of books you can read. If you're willing to pay udemy has some video lessons that are pretty good at explaing the basics and some more advanced stuff. Good luck, I'm not professional though I'm still learning as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRobot Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I'm about to get back into programming myself. I started years ago with web design, and progressed into programming, but ened up having to focus more on life. It's been a long time since I've used it, but I remember when I was learning web design http://www.w3schools.com/ was a good reference tool for me, not so much a learning tool. If I knew what I was looking for, and a basic understanding of how it worked, w3schools was useful. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaman Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 (edited) Well at this point I have begun learning. I am currently using Codecademy for this. I really like it so far but there are a couple of things that are really confusing to me. If you look at the picture below you'll see one of them. While I ended up figuring this one out it still seems like a bit of mumbo jumbo and honestly doesn't really explain the examples you use to figure out the Values that you need to set. I get that it is looking for not False = True not True = False not not True = True not not False = False ect ect But honestly to me the math problems in there make it make no sense lol. NVM apparently I needed to talk it over with someone to make it make sense. now I just feel stupid lol. Edited February 1, 2015 by Alten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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