Random Thoughts Thread

[fastbilly1]

Thinking about teaching myself some programming skills and was wondering if anyone had any introductory book / website suggestions for learning Java, C++, Basic, etc.

Current humble book bundle has childrens books about programming. It might help and it is cheap.

[KalessinDB]

code.org is real basic stuff, I've heard decent things about it. I know once you've wrapped your head around the absolute basics of the theory, all my friends who actually stayed with CS swear by O'Reilly books to teach themselves a new language.

Personal experience though, I cannot help with. I abandoned it in college and while I've toyed with the idea of going back I've never pulled the trigger.

[BoneSnapDeez]

O'Reilly books are king. I have a bunch.

[Stark]

code.org is real basic stuff, I've heard decent things about it. I know once you've wrapped your head around the absolute basics of the theory, all my friends who actually stayed with CS swear by O'Reilly books to teach themselves a new language.

Personal experience though, I cannot help with. I abandoned it in college and while I've toyed with the idea of going back I've never pulled the trigger.

If you find your self needing to read a bunch of these I recommend: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/

You can get a bunch of those online and on some iOS/Android devices. It's a monthly sub and you can check out like 10 books at a time and just swap them as you're done. Pretty dang snazzy.

[MrPopo]

Don't focus on learning a language; focus on learning to program. Someone with good software development skills can pick up new languages fairly easily. Obviously you're going to learn a language as you learn to code, but you should focus on things that teach good techniques and the more generalized algorithmic and data structure theory. That'll give you the grounding you need.

[ZeroAX]

Start with Html

[Luke]

Love pomegranates, hate pomegranate stains.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Start with Html

That'd what I did.......

[TSTR]

10 PRINT "8===>"
20 GOTO 10

[jp1]

30 Your work is done, play Gorillas.