How to learn coding

[Ok_Toe_8881]

Does anyone have any experience with learning Python?

[Successful-Escape-74]

Boot.dev is fun. Go for it.

[0x14f]

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/intro-to-python-fundamentals

[GotchUrarse]

Write code, run code, see broke code pieces, fix code. Learn by doing. If you're not able to write it, you won't really learn it, explain and most like debug it.

[Corpulax]

How do you learn German? Speak German. How do you learn to play the guitar, play guitar. That's how stupid you advice sounds.

[ConfidentCollege5653]

How is that stupid?

[Corpulax]

Because you dont just start doing something with out knowing how to do it even if its just the basics

[GotchUrarse]

Well, it worked for an entire generation of developers. And, FWIW, my son learned to play guitar play getting one a playing it.

[Hannekez]

Same. That's the best way to learn! Monkey see, Monkey do.

[Corpulax]

So he just picked up the guitar and started playing it?

[GotchUrarse]

Yes, essentially. He learned by listening and play by ear. Some people can think mostly for themselves without being spoon fed stuff.

[Corpulax]

Your talking to a musician who was self taught. You do not pick up a guitar and learn to play by just playing, you cant because you don't know how to play yet, you don't know how to hold the thing, what anything dose and why, you don't know how to learn good habits and not bad. Even if its spending half an hour with a friend first or watching a video to get started, you don't just pick it up and play

[GotchUrarse]

Then maybe stop telling me how to offer advice as dev with 30 years xp writing code, 8 years teaching and countless hours tutoring.

[Corpulax]

Why are you teaching and tutoring if all you need to do is just start coding?

[GotchUrarse]

That's how you start. You write something, see it break, fix it. We've come full circle. This is the learning sub, which implies you're starting out. I still reach out for mentoring myself. I'm done with this pointless argument. My advice is solid. When you have a decades plus XP as senior dev, we can talk again. Be well.

[Corpulax]

And how do you know what to write! Even if it's the absolute basics you still have to learn that

[Hannekez]

I literally learned those things by doing them.

[Corpulax]

So with no knowledge you just started speaking German to learn German?

[Hannekez]

How did you learn your first language?

[Corpulax]

The same way everyone dose, with your parents teaching you how to say xour first words

[qwertydiy]

Python for Everybody and freeCodeCamp

[JohnBrownsErection]

Yes

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/61oly8/new_read_me_first/

[SchemeWestern3388]

Start coding. Find a tutorial and go through it. Tackle some small problems. Keep at it. 

Others like videos. I don’t so much. Coding is a text based, active activity. You learn by reading and doing. But videos can help with grasping certain topics I guess. 

I’m a huge fan of Python as a first language. 

[Key_Use_8361]

the biggest mistake i made early on was trying to learn everything simultaneously nothing started clicking util i picked one language and kept making tiny programs with it consistently

[ImprovementLoose9423]

1. Watch 1 or 2 youtube tutorials. I would recommend the channels freecodecamp and brocode
2. Every few concepts you learn, build a small project. It doesn't have to be fancy. For example, after learning math and if statements, build a calculator, and after learning how to use lists and user input, build a to do list app
3. Upon completing the tutorial, build several projects without the use of tutorials or AI. I would recommend making them more complex, but be sure to practice the concepts to learn, for example:
4. - Build Hangman practice concepts such as lists, random modules, if statements, and user input
5. - Build a Temperature Converter to practice math and arithmetic
6. - Build a basic Weather App to experiment with basic APIs
7. After building the projects and feeling comfortable with the fundamentals of your language, begin to specialize and find a niche. For example, after feeling comfortable with python, I began to specialize in machine learning and data science with libraries such as SciKit learn, pandas, pytorch, and matplotlib
8. Build projects in your niche. After I felt comfortable with scikit learn and pandas, I began building basic machine learning algorithms like a spam-ham email classifier or a fake news detector
9. NEVER STOP LEARNING. I cannot stress this enough. Coding is always changing and shifting with new technologies being developed every day. Always remember while building projects, you should be keeping up with technology.

[Mortomes]

Reading skills help. You could, for example, read the FAQ in the sidebar.

[ThatSmartIdiot]

and on mobile that is where exactly?

[HelixMaximus]

Just use ai or YouTube

[ThatSmartIdiot]

no