I'm a 14 year old . Whose learning to code and I'm getting somewhere but I would like to ask the more experienced programmers some questions:
1. How do you balance your time to learn a substantial amount of code ?
2. How do you take notes when learning code?
3. How do practice what you learn ?
4. How to not get overwhelmed?
5. How does your phone help you?
6.What kind of projects are recommended for beginners to take on?
P.S I want to be a web developer and I would also like to get into app development. But I want to learn web development first then maybe get into app development
Last edited: Feb 26, 2016
Matt7262
Ice Cream Sandwich
Mar 15, 2015
Good job man!
By the time I was 13 I knew C++, Java and C# 
1. I would say to study the language and learn for about 30 minutes a day.
2. Just re-write the code you have learnt in your IDE, see if it works and if so, try combining tutorials to practice and make your own programs.
3. After one tutorial, write the code from the tutorial and see if it works. After a few tutorials, just go ahead and apply what you have learnt to try and create your own code. If it doesn't work, go over a few more tutorials and try again.
4. Don't study too much at the same time. Only do it bit by bit. Once you have understood what you're currently looking at, then you can take a break, then learn more.
Web development is good to start at but not good to apply when making apps, they aren't the same in any way. I would suggest doing the basics of Java for Android apps (If you want to do Android Apps), which would help in a lot of other languages. Then once you get really good with Java, you can try making apps in Unity3D or Game Maker Studio etc.. You can apply your Java skills to other languages such as C++ in those programs.
Good luck
Last edited: Mar 15, 2015
Slyther1
Ice Cream Sandwich
Mar 15, 2015
On a more developmental side of things, though, learn to plan. It's a pain in the *** to try and face a problem without even thinking it through, write the first bits of code that come to your head, and then having to deal with all the consequences later.
In order to answer your 4 questions, though:
1. I find learning about programming just as fun of a thing to do as playing video games, so there goes all my time!
2. I don't. You try and understand what the basics of things are, and try to contextualize. If you just go around remembering how to hacker, you're not gonna get to far. (Bro, do u even hacker?)
3. Think of something you'd like to create, and create it! I find this to be easier in OOP, since you can have great ideas of how to piece things together, and you learn from the experience!
4. I really like programming! It's pretty much like a video game: if you like it, you won't get overwhelmed by it, when you otherwise would!
Last edited: Mar 15, 2015
Can you explain 2 & 3 a bit more please also some links to great IDE's would be appreciated.
Last edited: May 30, 2015
