Thank you! Any chance you can help me with a question I've had lately? I know that these sites are good for learning the languages, but what next? How do I go about writing crappy programs and using the language? I've been playing with notepad++ but I don't know how to "Run" something that I write.
You aren't going to like this answer at all but the bottom line is you have to just open notepad++, pick a compiler and stick with it, and just go dude. I mean really just go. Try everything. Compile 100 bad scripts 1000 different times, experiment with new organizational methods, watch youtube videos, keep what works for you and throw out what doesn't.
A goal that I set for myself that really helped get me started was to program a basic CMD calculator. There are tutorials online and it was lots of fun. After that I felt much better about tackling larger projects and I felt like I knew enough to start chatting with others about basic coding tasks and projects. Read everything everyone says all the time and take notes. Sometimes I'll literally take notes in a composition notebook I have under my desk. It's a lot of work and there's no set path but this is how I've gotten where I am which is the tiniest notch above Novice. Someone else may have better suggestions. I don't know if there is a /t/code or /t/coding or something like that but that would be a good search to get you around people who are proficient and who can and probably will provide you with assistance outside of my realm of knowledge!
Though it's not what you're looking for the HTML and CSS courses are super quick, super easy, and contain a lot of small nuggets of good information that I missed the first time I was taught. I have a great resource for learning C as well, let me see if I can dig it up.
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This is where I got my start. Really basic, mostly web-centric languages, but very useful for getting my feet wet. :)
I love codecademy! I've taken the first lesson in Javascript.
Here it is! It's not the prettiest thing in the world. but it really helped me get a good grasp enough to start messing around with what I was doing in unity.
Thank you! Any chance you can help me with a question I've had lately? I know that these sites are good for learning the languages, but what next? How do I go about writing crappy programs and using the language? I've been playing with notepad++ but I don't know how to "Run" something that I write.
You aren't going to like this answer at all but the bottom line is you have to just open notepad++, pick a compiler and stick with it, and just go dude. I mean really just go. Try everything. Compile 100 bad scripts 1000 different times, experiment with new organizational methods, watch youtube videos, keep what works for you and throw out what doesn't.
A goal that I set for myself that really helped get me started was to program a basic CMD calculator. There are tutorials online and it was lots of fun. After that I felt much better about tackling larger projects and I felt like I knew enough to start chatting with others about basic coding tasks and projects. Read everything everyone says all the time and take notes. Sometimes I'll literally take notes in a composition notebook I have under my desk. It's a lot of work and there's no set path but this is how I've gotten where I am which is the tiniest notch above Novice. Someone else may have better suggestions. I don't know if there is a /t/code or /t/coding or something like that but that would be a good search to get you around people who are proficient and who can and probably will provide you with assistance outside of my realm of knowledge!
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That definitely sounds like a good starting project. Thank you! I'll look into a compiler and start playing around.
Though it's not what you're looking for the HTML and CSS courses are super quick, super easy, and contain a lot of small nuggets of good information that I missed the first time I was taught. I have a great resource for learning C as well, let me see if I can dig it up.