learning to write code

[Harold Hartley]

I think books are the best way but it’s a digital world now and they seem to be putting everything online now.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, at 11:57, Matt Graham wrote:
> 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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