Learning How to Program – Picking a Langauge. Lately, learning how to program has become quite popular, so I figured I would put together a quick guide to help people get started.
As I discuss in The Future of Education II, I think many people should learn some programming. Even if they don’t want to do it full-time, they’ll still be able to use it for various smaller things in life. In part I of this guide, I’ll discuss the different popular languages that one can learn. The first step is to pick a language. You shouldn’t worry to much about this choice, since you can learn the basic programming fundamentals no matter what programming language you choose. The webpages you view have been sent over by a server. Javascript Since Javascript runs in all browsers, it can be a good choice of language to learn.
PHPPHP is a language built for creating dynamic web pages, and it runs on the server-side. PythonIf you just want an easy and elegant language to learn programming, Python is a good choice. Summary: The Way of the Program — How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition. The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist.
This way of thinking combines some of the best features of mathematics, engineering, and natural science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computations). Like engineers, they design things, assembling components into systems and evaluating tradeoffs among alternatives. Like scientists, they observe the behavior of complex systems, form hypotheses, and test predictions. The single most important skill for a computer scientist is problem solving. On one level, you will be learning to program, a useful skill by itself.
Algorithms If problem solving is a central part of computer science, then the solutions that you create through the problem solving process are also important. Our goal in computer science is to take a problem and develop an algorithm that can serve as a general solution. Check your understanding The Python Programming Language (ch01_1) input output. Chart for Learning a Programming Language. Learn to Code with LearnStreet: Javascript, Python & Ruby Tutorials.
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