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Where do I start?
No job no school and i have plenty free time and im sick of sleeping all day
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Dec 2 2012 05:19am
There are lot's of free online courses/tutorials you can find, such as the 2008 MIT CS course which people link all the time.

Since no school maybe consider a book/website that goes thru stuff stuff.

google "learn python the hard way", seems like a pretty thorough tutorial.

Whatever you do, don't confuse coding/programming with a specific language. There is a massive pool of knowledge with regard to coding/programming that goes between languages, knowledge about all kinds of things (memory, hardware/code interaction, server/client interaction, algorithms etc etc).
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Dec 2 2012 10:54am
link to the above mentioned site:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
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Start by learning C++, after you will be abel to code in C# and Java in notime which are the 3 most used language atm

Big C++ 2nd or 3rd edition is a masterpiece to learn amazon is about 80 if im right :)
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Quote (Fawar @ Dec 2 2012 09:03pm)
Start by learning C++, after you will be abel to code in C# and Java in notime which are the 3 most used language atm

Big C++ 2nd or 3rd edition is a masterpiece to learn amazon is about 80 if im right :)


this advice is an utter piece of crap. you should reference some old threads on this topic... such as this one:
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64901066&f=120

if you don't want to read any of that, just go here instead:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/index.htm

This post was edited by irimi on Dec 3 2012 01:04am
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Quote (irimi @ 3 Dec 2012 02:02)
this advice is an utter piece of crap.  you should reference some old threads on this topic... such as this one:
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64901066&f=120

if you don't want to read any of that, just go here instead:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/index.htm


So whare you in here except flaming everyone else's opinion? You reference old threads because that's all you can do since you seem to know nothing and never gives back real facts.

This post was edited by Fawar on Dec 3 2012 07:46am
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Quote (Fawar @ Dec 3 2012 06:34am)
So whare you in here except flaming everyone else's opinion? You reference old threads because that's all you can do since you seem to know nothing and never gives back real facts.


Look, if you're going to continue to report me for flaming just because I'm calling out bad advice and unsubstantiated opinions, then you may as well quit while you're behind.

There's a difference between flaming someone and simply pointing out terrible advice.
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Quote (irimi @ 3 Dec 2012 14:07)
Look, if you're going to continue to report me for flaming just because I'm calling out bad advice and unsubstantiated opinions, then you may as well quit while you're behind.

There's a difference between flaming someone and simply pointing out terrible advice.


Again, all you say is opinions.
If you don't like no need to flame it. I'd really like to know from where you got SOOO much fact to back up your opinion.
IE on this book i referenced which I'M sure you never read at all.

This post was edited by Fawar on Dec 3 2012 01:26pm
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