myanyx

hello all,

looks like even people who start threads in this section have had at least some background in programming.unfortunately i'm an odd one

i'm a 17 year-old asian guy having no formal learning in programming but i have some interest in learning it. i've been trying to learn from some tuts found online, but can seem to "get it"

so i was loafing around and found this amazing site. hopefully i can at least "get a glimpse" about programming here and be able to stay for quite a long time here

Freaky Chris

Welcome to the forums,

We all started out not knowning anything about programming at some point. I still know little about programming however but i am learning slowly and thats the best way.

Have you had any thoughts as to what language you would like to look at as a starting point?

There is plenty of help avaliable on these forums so just ask if you need anything and imsure someone will be able to solve your problem.

Chris

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Grich

Welcome myanyx!
Advice: Your probably going to get alot of advice were you should start (eg start with python, go from HTML and onwards, go with C++, go for VB). My advice is this: start with any programming language you want, the trick is to implement what you know from one language into another.

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myanyx

thanks,

i did read about reviews on languages, and i decided to start of with python.mostly because of it's more readable and more recommended for beginners (even Eric S. Raymond recommends python as beginner's language )

Freaky Chris

Good choice, also one bonus to Python as a starting language is that it teaches good programming technique's i guess ill see you in the Python forum before long then.

Good Luck

Chris

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Grich

Wise choice.
Just enjoy programming for the time being. Don't take it seriously just yet, until you go to college and start working, that's a long way off for you.

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Ooble

I disagree with you there. You don't have to go to college to take programming seriously... I started taking it seriously when I was 16 and got a few jobs out of it.

'Course, I was messing around for a few years before that. Don't take it seriously until you're sure you want to put a hell of a lot of time into it.

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Grich

Everyone has there opinion dude, I'm just using my own life as an example.
I studied art in between high school and college, it took a while before I realized programming is my future. Most people have a time in their life when they are confused.

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Connahhh

If your planning on learning Python, buy Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. It's a super friendly and easy to follow book, which is how I am learning right now.

myanyx

thanks for all the suggestions given here,

well, i don't think i'll study programming for education, i'll just treat programming as my hobby to kill my free times. (somehow i find gaming kinda boring, lol)