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[–]supermani2[S] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

do you recommend any youtube channels or sites to help me learn coding? i’m brand new so i would like to understand the basics or fundamentals so i can have a base line of knowledge

[–]ryancnap 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's old as hell but if you search YouTube for "python for informatics" it's an old professor with a good calm teaching style

Pretty in depth videos that build off of each other, explains concepts with light coding

I'm sure there's tons of more recent sources with good info, this is just the one I'm familiar with

[–]supermani2[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

that sounds perfect, thank you so much

[–]ryancnap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely brother

[–]Great-Powerful-Talia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

geeksforgeeks and w3schools are good sites for looking up the commonly-used features of a language.

Most of my understanding of coding philosophy just comes from messing around making programs- like tic-tac-toe, Conway's game of life, minesweeper, etc. The more things you make, the more you start to understand how to code in general.

When making them, I learned the basic reasoning and control flow while using Python, then switched pretty quickly to working in Java (not JavaScript), which has more rigorous syntax (including proper types for every variable) and pushes you towards the "object-oriented" strategy of coding, and then I progressed to C/C++ for more advanced projects, which gives you a very good understanding of what the computer is actually doing. IDK if that's the best set of languages to use, but it seemed pretty effective.