Where did you learn coding?

[Jason Y]

Were you self-taught?   Did you use self-help books?   Did you study at school?   What kind of school?

Myself, I took some courses in community college and two at a university.   Also, I studied some sort of programming in middle school in the very early 90s.

 

[TopSilver]

RE: Where did you learn coding?

Self taught here. I learned on my own but I only learned HTML and CSS. No coding beyond a bit of PHP is my skill set but I am learning as days go by.

 

[Yarik]

RE: Where did you learn coding?

Self taught here. I learned on my own but I only learned HTML and CSS. No coding beyond a bit of PHP is my skill set but I am learning as days go by.

I want to learn coding as well. Could you tell me what resources you used to learn from? Like a website or an app? I hope with time I could learn coding and be able to make my own projects.

 

[webby]

At lot of what I've learned about web development came from online resources and basically trying things out to see how it works.

RE: Where did you learn coding?

I want to learn coding as well. Could you tell me what resources you used to learn from? Like a website or an app? I hope with time I could learn coding and be able to make my own projects.

To make a website, I basically searched online and found a bunch of resources related to what I wanted to do like if I wanted to figure out how to make a layout or how I can create a menu. Plus looking at the syntax of different things like HTML and CSS can help.

Biggest thing for me was deciding what I wanted to make and just trying to do it. Anytime I ran into some obstacle like not knowing how something worked, I would do some research to try to learn about it and then go back and see if I could. Good luck!

 

[Senkusha]

I mostly learned on my own. I'd go to the city library when I was in middle school and build programs in GW Basic. In high school, I was privileged and bought a TI-81 graphing calculator, and then upgraded to a TI-85. I remember having a large spiral bound notebook full of little scripts that I'd written of little programs/apps. Went to college and learned some Java. Dropped out, and later learned C, C++, and C# on my own, but not really good enough to become a professional. I learned Visual Basic .NET and made a utility tool for my co-workers while I worked as a Software Support Technician back before the 2008 Housing Crash-- Maybe someday I'll get back into this career? When I began futzing around with webpages, I learned PHP and JavaScript working within the SMF forum software, even wrote a couple of fairly complicated mods. Unfortunately, nothing ever published. Recently, I've started learning Unreal Engine using Blueprinting (or whatever it's called now).