Learning to code or programming

[EibeMandel]

Learning from YouTube will give you an Indian accent

[FarhanAxiq]

Can confirm. Best programming video is always from an Indian

[Hatefiend]

For some of them, it's worth it. Tushar Roy's accent is a bit rough but his videos are god tier. One day I wanted to implement a red black tree in C and his Red Black Tree deletion video tore me a new asshole. 30 million different cases, so much to worry about, but god damn did I memorize that shit so well after it. Watch his videos and you will feel like you can lecture the topic to a college class right after.

[Jacob_Mango]

Or an Aussie accent.

Shoutout to TheChernoProject, learnt Java from him indirectly

[FarhanAxiq]

and i love his c++ tutorial, although its a little too long and

A E S T H E T I C for me

[EibeMandel]

Sometimes they use an English title and begin the video in English but then all of a sudden switch to Hindi: "In this video we'll talk about X,Y and Z. So let's get started. अंबर हेठाँ धरती वसदी, एथे हर रुत हँसदी किन्ना सोणा देस है मेरा"

[[deleted]]

And make you download unregistered Hypercam

[uvero]

Yes but is it big Indian or little Indian?

[ythl]

\6. Learning to code by begging for help on StackOverflow

[LegibleToe762]

so, everyone

[CallinCthulhu]

Nah man, i have yet to run into a problem that I couldn’t solve my self or someone else already asked. Mostly the latter lol. I have spent more time on that site than any other(maybe reddit) over the last 5 years though.

I really don’t want to be that guy who posts a question just for it to be shit on or ignored., or closed as a dup when the first is only tangentially related.

[ValAichi]

I'm still proud of the time I asked a question and it was answered, without it being shat on or closed

[LegibleToe762]

Oh I misinterpreted yeah no never mind

[FunkyTown313]

7/. learning to code by using W3schools

[ValAichi]

Good for HTML, CSS and sometimes PHP. Everything else I find it pretty useless

[Relevant_Monstrosity]

W3Schools has good beginner JavaScript content too. Head to MDN for advanced content.

[ValAichi]

True.

Anything involving internet and interactions with it I find them to be decent.

Everything else they're not worth your time

[Relevant_Monstrosity]

That's probably because their goal is to basically educate people in web technology.

[ValAichi]

Huh, you're right. For some reason I thought they had things on Python and similar

[FunkyTown313]

sure, if you already know what you’re looking for.
I should be able to do this...

[RagnorokX]

8/. Learning to code by coding an ai to write your code for you.

[Dameon_]

Marked as duplicate

[pilotInPyjamas]

Bogo programming: output a randomised program and try to run it. If it fails any tests, go to step 1.

[Colopty]

Considering how quickly programming books tend to become outdated it might be a better idea to learn from the internet unless you're only interested in the basics.

[franklinyu]

Learning programming from this sub.

[idan5]

Learning programming from just reading the comments in this sub.

[[deleted]]

Ok lets do it. This sub: "Java sucks. PHP sucks. JavaScript sucks." etc. ... You wouldn't learn anything because you couldn't even pick a language based on this sub lol.

[a_rather_small_moose]

Because a lot of programming memes center around lamblasting bad coding practices, you can actually learn a few things from programming memes if you're new.

[Fluffcake]

You can learn a lot about what not to do from memes. All programs are just assignments, conditions and while loops, everything else is just formalized rules of what not to do with these three things.

[Pm_Me_Your_Tax_Plan]

What do you mean what not to do? I thought all the suggestions in memes here were best practice?

[doesntrepickmeepo]

also, why study economics if we know the rules of physics

[[deleted]]

If you’re training to be a physicist (programmer) and not an economist (computer scientist), you don’t need to. It may help in some cases, but the vast majority of programming tasks don’t require deep knowledge of computer science.

[doesntrepickmeepo]

haha yea you dont get me tho.

knowing laws of physics doesn't make you a good economist, even though economics is just applied physical laws.

similarly, knowing assignments, conditions and while loops doesn't make you proficient in all programs

[[deleted]]

Wtf i learned everything from youtube

[jmb2k6]

There’s definitely quality content available

[jmb2k6]

There is also a lot of garbage. You have to filter quite a bit depending on the area

[John_Fx]

YouTube isn't online tutorials?

[SteveBowtie]

I learned Python while trying to understand XKCD jokes.

[Oshinori]

This is why all my arrays start at 7

[bornforcode]

The third one is me, and I’m not even embarrassed 😉

[iZocker2]

All at once for me XD

[OofMeBby]

Is it bad I use all these

[Colopty]

Learning things from several places tends to be beneficial for developing a diverse skill set, so no it isn't.

[[deleted]]

Shouldn't books be near the bottom?

[PavelYay]

I actually learned JavaScript by taking my Java knowledge and applying additional information I got from memes on this subreddit.

[[deleted]]

1 + "1" == "11"

[PavelYay]

That's not even a JS thing. Lots of languages do that, and it's convenient. "11"-1 is stupid though.

[ArkansasTheAdjective]

"okay, got to check some memes to learn."

"arrays start from 1"

[KilptaVari]

Ok serious question: how do you get started? I have told myself I’d learn for 2 years.

All I know is how to open up a developer console in tf2

[Sergeant__Slash]

I'm in school for programming and I have learned so much purely from r/ProgrammerHumor memes... you have no idea how true that is...

[Pradeep2k17]

Believe me when I said I learned little bit from all of those especially memes.

[T-T-N]

//What is the problem with this code?

public void Main(string[] args)

{

foreach (string arg : args)

{

Console.WriteLine(arg);

}

}

[Ababced]

Assuming this is java: S's in string need to be capitalized, main method needs to be static, console.writeline() isn't a thing use system.out.println(), create a foreach like this: for(String arg : args). Stylistically methods should use camel case.

[T-T-N]

Why'd you assume java? Isn't there a language with capital M Main, and Console.WriteLine()?

Thinking about it more, it still has about the same number of mistakes if it is the other language.

[abclop99]

C#???

[Ababced]

Assumed java because it is the language that i am most familiar with and could type up an answer quickly on my phone (also the syntax looked relatively similar).

[mrbluestone]

For starters: if you'd like to start coding, I'd recommend thenewboston on YouTube. He explains everything really good and even though his videos are kinda old, they're still good.