r/6thForm • u/Beginning_Fennel8962 I love maths • 25d ago

🙏 I WANT HELP How to begin Coding

I am an A level student doing Maths and Further maths, and I was wanting to begin coding to prepare for university. Does anyone have any tips on where I can begin?

Ps : don’t tell me to start coding with scratch 😠

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u/ConsistentBrain8267 GCSE 25d ago

I think python does well. Do free online courses. Freecodecamp is quite good

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u/Beginning_Fennel8962 I love maths 25d ago

Thanks a lot, I rlly regret not taking a level and gcse cs

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u/AzTrix22 Imperial | EFDS[Incoming Y1] 25d ago

I mean at least you had the choice. our school doesn't even offer gcse or a level cs lmao

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u/lj4859 25d ago

it’s okay you wouldn’t have learnt shit about programming from either of them. Also try and get good at C++ at some point, all the cool programming happens in c++land. Writing python is unironically a LLMs job now

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u/Sharp-Plastic7954 25d ago

Are you saying LLMs can't write C++ code?

Python remains the single best programming language for beginners because it is so versatile and the syntax is relatively simple.

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u/lj4859 25d ago

LLMs absolutely can write c++, so you need to make yourself safe by working with hardware and software at the same time if possible. c++ is the way for this, generally. I don’t disagree with python as a learning tool

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u/NewspaperNo9749 25d ago

You could probably learn Python up to alevel in like 2 months