How To Learn To Program
- Make it free to Learn – open source implementations of languages.
- Don't use a traditional programming book – too slow.
- Learn it to do something – be focused.
- Ask for help.
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How To Learn
- Make it free to Learn
- Find some open source implementations of the language you want to learn.
- Check out sourceforge, freecountry
- Don't use a traditional programming book – too slow.
- use online tutorials
- find a TDD based book for the language
- Find some tutorial web sites on the language
- Check out YouTube and Google Video
- Learn it to do something
- Find a small project to do in it
- Find a way to generate Test Data in it
- Parse a log file in it
- Work on an actual system
- Ask for help
- Developers will help if you are sincerely interested. I've never met a developer that wasn't happy to help me understand a language in more detail if I have made an effort to learn.
There is so much information out there on the web, all you have to do is look for it.
Go look. Now.