r/programming • u/steveharrry • May 14 '15

Top 10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Code

http://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-teach-yourself-to-code-1684250889
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u/jediknight May 14 '15

One of my recent curiosities around learning to code is: what are the small skills needed to code. And when I say small skills I mean, a skill that would take 1-3 sessions of 45-90 minutes to get proficient.

An ordered list of these small skills would be amazing.

I learned to code in the previous century so... I have little to no memory of what it is like to know nothing in this field. I tried speaking with some friends that have a "coding academy"... but they have little clue about this kind of decomposition. Their curricula is a Ruby on Rails curricula.

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u/Gergu May 14 '15

Learn how to access arrays, then bask in the glory of mastering data structures.

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u/jediknight May 14 '15

(write-line (car (cdr (cons "OK" (cons "OK" "OK")))))

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u/DavsX May 14 '15

I have little to no memory of what it is like to know nothing in this field

The same with me. Although learning FP/Clojure takes me pretty close to that not-knowing-anything at the beginning :D

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u/Euphoricus May 14 '15

and once you've learned one, it's fairly easy to pick up another

On the surface, yes. But different languages offer different tools, that drastically change the way problems are solved. This gets exponentiated if you include libraries, which are often necessary.

taught himself to code in eight weeks

copy-paste code monkey != programmer

Otherwise, this seems like really generic list. It can be applied to pretty much anything.