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Hi all, I'm new here and have absolutely no experience programming. I figured to give python a try. I bought "Learning Python" from the O'Reilly series and find it rather confusing. I've been also reading/working through some online tutorials.
Everything I've been reading seems incoherant and doesn't seem to make too much sense. I'm going to college late in the game (I'm 26 now), and going for computer science. I figure why waste more time, why not learn as much as I can even outside of classes.
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I am only 14 now and i have an understanding of programming. I'm not meaning to brag but simply to state that you can be 14 or you can be 26 and you will still have trouble. Now i cant program a large program(for that matter a small one) but thats not my point. My advice to you use, be around the code, go to any site, post in any forum, do anything that lets you be around the code. Even if you only look over the code, just visualize it and recognize it. I have 2 C books that i am currently reading, now i havnt learned much from them but it has got me fimilar with the langauge. Trust me, if you see the code enough it will just click soon enough. you will start out small then it will just be like speaking english.
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Basically, is it expected that I catch on to this quickly or do I have ADD? lol, thanks for any responses.
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NO! The first time i looked at some source code online i would ahve sworn it was martion of something of that sort. Trust me, if you really try and are confident in yourself then it will just click one day.
I would reccomend that you start out with Python, but thats just me. I found the code to be slightly similar with BASIC.( a very easy programming language) If you already have a sense for programming, then i would suggest C because if you can code in C then any other language will come easy. I must warn you, C is difficult but that reward is great. If you really want to start out small, i dont reccomend it but if you choose you can start with BASIC. Its really easy on beginners though it has very few fundimentals of programming languages similar to C or Java. BASIC also has alot of limitations that will stop you from doing curtain things that you will want to do. So think about it.
