my job pisses me off
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It’s fun. If you’re good at math, definitely give it a go.
i forgot all math from school
i dont know if i am good but i am dont know where to start
https://www.codecademy.com/ is a good place to start. If I were you Id learn something like Java or C++ instead of the web development stuff, too much competition in that area
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Start off by learning C, that’s the fundamental language. After that, all the other languages will be easy to learn.
Www.kahnacademy.com is good too.
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If you want to get a job programming, you will have to go to university. An employer would never hire a self taught programmer.
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That’s not true. I graduated college and had a job as a website developer. I met plenty of people who taught themselves and had programming jobs.
You could also be self employed. Start your own website, or even create applications that businesses could buy.
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Web development is a bit different though. I mean programming languages for applications. If you were hiring people to develop games and apps they would not hire someone that has just gone on udemy and took a few courses.
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i went to local college and got a certificate in web development about 9 years ago. back then i learned how to code a website from just using notepad program on computer before i used a GUI (general user interface) i asked someone i knew who had a bachelors degree back then and was working for a company and he said he doesnt really do much programming he just uses a GUI to design the program for the company he works for instead of typing out every single line of code.
i understand code ok i guess but i never really learned how to program. a lot of the stuff on how to think like a programmer is to use a flow chart…
for instance when you start programming you will have to designate each action by the user with certain syntax. so in a flow chart using if / then as example IF A=1 then OUTPUT 1 or something like that so just for an idea say you add a prompt window into the program then if you enter A the window will pop up and say 1.
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here is a screenshot of when i was studying at stratford career institute online school. it costs about 500 to 1000 or so to get a certificate with them. in this case i was programming a tax calculator for a tire company. as you can see int is integer defined for designating a number and the ‘scanf’ is the window that will pop up for the user to enter a number or integer. then it will take that number and do the math to add the text as seen later in the code to ‘printf’ to show the answer. due to life circumstances i didnt graduate i ended up getting into producing music on my computer and i think i was about 5/6 way done with programming and dropped out.
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C is somewhat easy. C++ is much harder because of classes and private variables. Its C++ that has that right??
the code in the screenshot is just C. i learned some java in college but never used it. i would love to go back to any good online school to learn programming but right now i cant afford it and im not in the right health mode to do it i think.
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I remember when my head was in the right spot I used to love programming. The thrill of completing something that took you hours to code. Good times …
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Do khanacademy.org for math they also have coding
If you want to get inspired buy a microbit https://microbit.org/ and then learn on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/makecode it uses JavaScript and blocks. With blocks you just drag and drop instead of write actual code then you can instantly convert it to code.
So you can learn how to make stuff more first than learning all the syntax right away.
Also freecodecamp.org is an amazing platform for learning code
You can buy a microbit on amazon
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