What's the best way to learn how to code?

I agree... start learning basics Html, css, java and so on and just start practically using the knowledge so it becomes part of you
 
Is it just me, or does the term "coding" sound like something you do when you are working in Assembler or other low level languages? Coding is what a programmer does. Most of us do development where we use high level languages that are not very cryptic at all.
 
Rouxenator said:
Is it just me, or does the term "coding" sound like something you do when you are working in Assembler or other low level languages? Coding is what a programmer does. Most of us do development where we use high level languages that are not very cryptic at all.
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It's just you
 
Meh, fair enough. It's just that coding sounds so mysterious.

You are definitely not coding if you are writing HTML or JavaScript, you're just writing scripts and markup language. That said I have developed a "scripting" language in XML which is essentially a bunch of Condition/Action pairs that gets compiled into a binary. Fun stuff.
 
Rouxenator said:
Meh, fair enough. It's just that coding sounds so mysterious.

You are definitely not coding if you are writing HTML or JavaScript, you're just writing scripts and markup language. That said I have developed a "scripting" language in XML which is essentially a bunch of Condition/Action pairs that gets compiled into a binary. Fun stuff.
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Nice. Any links to get into coding
 
Johnsoej said:
I agree... start learning basics Html, css, java and so on and just start practically using the knowledge so it becomes part of you
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As I said it depends on what he wants to code. Html and css are markup are descriptive languages, they are design and not programming languages.
 
Johnsoej said:
Nice. Any links to get into coding
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Not really, I started when the internet was in it's infancy. I used Yahoo to download SWAG and that is how I got going. Took computer science as a 7th subject in high school. Even back then I did not felt like I was coding. The only time I truly feel like I was coding was when I did ASM, OOP C++, LISP and Prolog.

As I mentioned before I have a XML based compiled script language that gets execute on internally developed 16 bit processors and I do consider developing in that XML based language to be coding as it is a fairly complex structure with elements that gets evaluated an both runtime and compile time. The later resulting in different binaries being produces from the same boilerplate base depending on a multitude of setting. It's the sum total of more than 4 years of work, but all of it runs on C#.

So learn something like C# or Java. They are pretty much C++ with an awesome framework under them to make your work easier.
 
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