On 2019-02-08 10:51, Matthew Crews wrote:

> On 2/8/19 10:33 AM, Harold Hartley wrote:

>> I am interested in learning to write code and not sure where to 

>> start.

>> I'm looking for anyone that can steer me in the right direction

>> for books or web site that can help me get started.

> https://www.learnpython.org/

> They also have links to learn other languages such as Go, C++, and 

> Ruby.

> And of course, there are endless amounts of books on Amazon, B&N, your

> local library.

Books (and websites) can vary widely in quality.  I liked _A Book on C_ 

by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl, as it had very clear instructions, examples, 

and lots of exercises.  Python is probably fine as a starter language 

too, since you already have it installed.

It's much easier to get into this sort of thing if you tie it to 

another thing.  Many years ago, I liked to play Angband and its variants 

( http://www.rephial.org/ ), and Angband is written in C.  So I picked 

up that textbook, learned enough C to be dangerous, and modified 

Angband.  (A modified version of a patch I wrote and the data files are 

still in Zangband and its offspring.)  If you like $GAME, there is 

probably a variant of $GAME out there that has its source code available 

and can be built on Linux.  That makes it relatively easy to learn the 

language that thing is written in enough to modify it to your liking.

> Learning to code is more than just learning a language however. You 

> need

> to be able to think logically, as in classical philosophical logic, 

> and

> you need to have a firm grasp of logical operators.

Those are the easy parts.  The hard parts involve learning all the 

library functions you'll need, their quirks, and the idioms of the 

language you are using.

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