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Where to begin if you are new to programming? | by krisguy | 2003-06-06 00:05:58 |
| my thoughts.. |
by DennisMV |
2003-06-06 00:43:21 |
>Jump into a new project?
I think that's a good one as a start
>Help with an established one?
It depends. .. I'd say no, unless that project is of a real interest to you. You probably will have to understand and read through the project first before doing much coding for it. Then, you'd have to bug people who wrote it, asking them a lot of questions of why this and why that in order to understand what's going on. Hopefully, they won't get irritated. Trying to understand the project without asking questions can be very time consuming. From my experience there was a big project I couldn't really ask any questions on, but it was available for me to look at. It was in Perl, and I didn't really know Perl at the time. I still didn't grasp it completely. It's been 3 years heh.
>Make my own variation of a program I like?
that's good too, as long as the program is small enough. Otherwise it may be overwhelming.
I'd say probably start with small example projects, like hello word program to see how the process of compiling and running programs work. Then pick small tasks like calculating something, or manipulating data of some sort. If you're past that point, then like someone said look for something you need and try to automate it with a program.
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