Learning to Code
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Programming = if statements and loops
If you can grasp those concepts you'll do ok. The rest is writing shit as simple as possible. You could write a 200 line program that capitalizes the first letter of each word, "a" to change it to "A" and you could write one of those if statements for a,b,c,d,e etc.
OR
You could go ucfirst("letter") and you would get "Letter".
If you want to do something weird likely there is a function already created in your language for that or somebody else has written one that you can use.
If you can grasp those concepts you'll do ok. The rest is writing shit as simple as possible. You could write a 200 line program that capitalizes the first letter of each word, "a" to change it to "A" and you could write one of those if statements for a,b,c,d,e etc.
OR
You could go ucfirst("letter") and you would get "Letter".
If you want to do something weird likely there is a function already created in your language for that or somebody else has written one that you can use.
... or you could use a bitwise operation and do it in 1 line with no function calls.
But yea, once you learn the basics, it's all about knowing how to read the API. If you know C and Object-Oriented concepts, and know how to read the API, then you also know Java and probably a couple more.
Not surprised that programmers are behind the design lol
That red background is so aggressive to the eye that I thought I turned blind after reading the whole thing. It honestly took me like 60 seconds to recover a normal sight.
We programmers can't design for shit.
Why learn code when you can outsource it?
For anything too small or simple to outsource, bits of code and Q&A as you need them on the WF coding section should be sufficient.
For anything too small or simple to outsource, bits of code and Q&A as you need them on the WF coding section should be sufficient.
But which one do I chose? If someone knows nothing about programming what code should one pick?
I chose PHP... good? No good?
The goal is not to become some genius in a language but have a better understanding and 500-1000 foot view of what is possible or how things (programs/websites/DB's) are put together.
Make sense?
I had to jump into a iPhone app development project last week. My developer fucked up, so I had to let him go. The deadline (less than a week) didn't allow me to go find a replacement developer, so my only good option was to learn Objective-C and iPhone app development myself. I already had a virtual Mac, but no knowledge of Objective-C or Xcode.
I had only 4 days to learn the language, study my developer's code, add some small features and fix a series of bugs. I'm not a guy who can spend hours and hours reading a book, so that wasn't a good option. Luckily, I found this site, which has a ton of programming tutorials. I followed both the Objective-C and Xcode course. 102 Youtube videos of 6 to 9 minutes each.
2 days later, I understood most of my ex-developers code and on the 4th day, the checklist was done. I couldn't have done it without that site.
It has many tutorials on PHP, jQuery, Visual Basic, C# and Android development. The guy goes over it slow and summarizes everything at the end of each video, which is good if you're new and allows you to skip parts if you don't need more info. He's quite funny, which makes the whole learning experience more fun.
I had only 4 days to learn the language, study my developer's code, add some small features and fix a series of bugs. I'm not a guy who can spend hours and hours reading a book, so that wasn't a good option. Luckily, I found this site, which has a ton of programming tutorials. I followed both the Objective-C and Xcode course. 102 Youtube videos of 6 to 9 minutes each.
2 days later, I understood most of my ex-developers code and on the 4th day, the checklist was done. I couldn't have done it without that site.
It has many tutorials on PHP, jQuery, Visual Basic, C# and Android development. The guy goes over it slow and summarizes everything at the end of each video, which is good if you're new and allows you to skip parts if you don't need more info. He's quite funny, which makes the whole learning experience more fun.
+rep That looks like a really cool site. What looks cool is theres a lot of videos in each section for a ton of languages.