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Best way to learn a progrmaming language ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Markshall" data-source="post: 372087" data-attributes="member: 1872"><p>There's no right answer to this, how can there be a 'best' way to learn anything, let alone a programming language? Everyone learns in different ways.</p><p></p><p>Many people learn from seeing stuff or being told what/how to do something. Personally, I learn better by actually doing it (kinaesthetic learning I think the correct term is).</p><p></p><p>I used to use Piczo probably about a decade ago to be honest (I'm 21 now and using Piczo at age 11 onwards seems about right), and if you don't know what Piczo was (it's now shut down), it was a drag-and-drop website builder but you could also implement JavaScript code and stuff like that. I was really interested in how those codes worked so I decided to learn how, I'd right click and view page sources and try to figure out what pieces of code meant and did what. Anything I was unsure about, I'd just Google it. Then I'd put what I'd researched into use, I'd just spend most of the day (literally) trying out different things, most of the time what I was doing was wrong, but you learn from your mistakes.</p><p></p><p>I don't know everything about PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript etc, no one can -- they're changing so much and so quickly, but I certainly know enough to put together a half decent website without having to Google anything. People think they need to know every function to be a good programmer. Good programmers check documentation to ensure what they're doing is correct and the best way of doing.</p><p></p><p>From then I was pretty much obsessed with what could be done on the web, I'd trawl loads of different websites figuring out what does what and why it does what it does.</p><p></p><p>I've not always been a web-based programmer, I used to make applications in Visual Basic <em>(lol)</em> for a few years, then realised that the web was my forte.</p><p></p><p>So basically, I learned what I know now from viewing page sources and Googling what I'd saw, then after a while, the fundamentals stuck with me.</p><p></p><p>This is probably just overthinking, but my family and I have always thought I've had a thing for languages, I studied German at GCSE level in high-school and excelled at it (without blowing my own trumpet), I know programming languages and spoken languages are different things, but the concept is pretty similar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Markshall, post: 372087, member: 1872"] There's no right answer to this, how can there be a 'best' way to learn anything, let alone a programming language? Everyone learns in different ways. Many people learn from seeing stuff or being told what/how to do something. Personally, I learn better by actually doing it (kinaesthetic learning I think the correct term is). I used to use Piczo probably about a decade ago to be honest (I'm 21 now and using Piczo at age 11 onwards seems about right), and if you don't know what Piczo was (it's now shut down), it was a drag-and-drop website builder but you could also implement JavaScript code and stuff like that. I was really interested in how those codes worked so I decided to learn how, I'd right click and view page sources and try to figure out what pieces of code meant and did what. Anything I was unsure about, I'd just Google it. Then I'd put what I'd researched into use, I'd just spend most of the day (literally) trying out different things, most of the time what I was doing was wrong, but you learn from your mistakes. I don't know everything about PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript etc, no one can -- they're changing so much and so quickly, but I certainly know enough to put together a half decent website without having to Google anything. People think they need to know every function to be a good programmer. Good programmers check documentation to ensure what they're doing is correct and the best way of doing. From then I was pretty much obsessed with what could be done on the web, I'd trawl loads of different websites figuring out what does what and why it does what it does. I've not always been a web-based programmer, I used to make applications in Visual Basic [I](lol)[/I] for a few years, then realised that the web was my forte. So basically, I learned what I know now from viewing page sources and Googling what I'd saw, then after a while, the fundamentals stuck with me. This is probably just overthinking, but my family and I have always thought I've had a thing for languages, I studied German at GCSE level in high-school and excelled at it (without blowing my own trumpet), I know programming languages and spoken languages are different things, but the concept is pretty similar. [/QUOTE]
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