Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Teach Yourself to Code...Beginners Guide

Welcome!

I want to learn to code! In doing a bit of research I’m gathering the information I’ll need to finally get started, and I’d like to share it with you what I’m learning along the way, especially if you too are a beginner and you are not sure where to start.

1st, I read that the first thing to do is to figure out what it is you’d like to code. Have an end goal in mind. Do you want to build an App? Website? Game? Etc. Just try to figure out what you want to do so you will get an idea of what you’ll need to learn. For example, I’m curious about building Apps and Websites.

2nd,This is optional, but consider taking a free Computer Science online course to get a better understanding of computer science and learn about the different languages involved. Here are courses that you can take for free and most at your own pace.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x

HTTP-The language used to build webpages.
CSS-The language used to design webpages.
Javascript-The Language used to program.
Via w3bschool.com

Top 10 Languages for Web Development, with their top five languages included at the bottom.
Top Languages for App Development
Good blog on Game Development

HTTP/CSS, JAVASRCRIPT, JAVA, PHP, C++, C#, PYTHON….seemed to be the most common used programming languages. Again, it seems its best to figure out what you’d like your end goal to be and work from there doing research.
A few free resources on the internet for learning coding are.

Youtube resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmVym6L8dw&list=PLAC325451207E3105

And so many more…

Anyway, I hope this proves to be somewhat helpful and useful. I definitely plan on getting started myself and possibly updating the blog with what I’ve learned and what’s good to know. Happy learning!



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