About time I got around to this
6 days ago
Learning Ruby from online tutorials and a textbook
How to learn to program
It made me
nerdy 
"Great mind exercise, and can be rewarding if you create something useful. "
How I did it: I learned some QBasic when I was around 9 years old, and I mostly used it to develop chat-bot and "choose your own adventure" games I could have my friends play. Then I lost interest, but while pursuing an engineering degree, I had to learn Fortran (lol), Maple, and MATLAB. All in all, I think programming is pretty fun, but I'd like to learn more relevant things.
Lessons & tips: The best way to learn how to program is to program. You can understand all of the concepts perfectly, but it takes a lot of practice in debugging and reverse engineering to get good at it.
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Taking classes
4 weeks ago
Taking classes in Python at a community college. I’m loving it all
micepop needs a freaking life man
So Yeah!
2 months ago
Well, I’ve always wanted to learn programming but every time I get up to doing it I get bored with my slow progress (I suck at sticking to things I start).. Anyways I always come back to looking to learn programming… I think I might try learning Python.. Or maybe I’ll try something simple first like HTML (Yeah yeah I know it’s a markup language and not programming but I might as well learn something..) Does JavaScript count as programming…? I’ve heard that’s easy.. I’ll update once I’ve started something.
Babb is packing for California!
last night and today
7 months ago
I spent about 5 hours total teaching myself Ruby using online tutorials. I have actually learned quite a bit, but would like to learn more. If anyone has any tips let me know! Thanks!
Programming
10 months ago
I know bits and pieces of assorted laguages but not enough to call myself a programmer.
cranraspberry postponing most of my goals to focus on a few at a time.
I'm going to call this done
10 months ago
Well, I’ve completed my first programming class, which taught me Java and the basics of programming in general.
I generally know Java, but I’m not fluent; however, I do know how to find out how to do things using the online Java docs. Its like knowing the basic rules of a spoken language, but still having a dictionary to help with harder words and grammar.
I’m going to call this goal done, and move onto another programming oriented goal. Either learn another language (C/C++), continue learning Java in depth, start applying my knowledge to things (such as joining the/an open-source community), or any combination of these things.
Programming
10 months ago
I want to learn web development and application development. I am going to start by learning python.
haven't started
11 months ago
My brother was always really good at programming. He does Informatics Olympiads and competitions, and I think he’ll do something to do with it.
He introduced me to HTML when I was like, 8 or something and I made sense of it.
But I couldn’t move any further to any real languages simply because… there’s too much to work with and it’s almost like there’s no starting point…
I’ve flicked through PHP and CGI manuals and they seem like gibberish to me… I can semi-understand what they’re explaining, but I couldn’t actually use the code to make something useful or make a program.
cranraspberry postponing most of my goals to focus on a few at a time.
I’m going to lectures by people from microsoft, yahoo and google. They are all great motivators! The technology we have even now is astounding, and that means it is getting more advanced every moment. I am very excited for the future, and now that I am learning programming, I get to be a part of it!
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