I want to be better

[Asmoa]

i'm a beginner in programming and i'm so slow in it :mad: what can i do to be better???:confused:

no gain without pain

[TheGeneral69]

cyborg implants, duh...

[Anthony Mushrow]

Just keep practising. Think of a simple application you would like to make, and start trying to make it. Don't attempt something too easy though, you want something your not sure how to do. That way you learn new things, besides, its no fun without the challenge. EDIT: Oh yeah, and if you havn't already, get a beginners book and a reference book. Work through tutorials in the beginners book, and keep the reference book handy.

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-SK Genius

modified on Friday, April 11, 2008 10:17 PM

[El Corazon]

Asmo'a wrote:

i'm a beginner in programming and i'm so slow in it what can i do to be better???

Remember the first law of programming: Programming is like pinball: the reward for doing it well, is doing it again. how do you get better at pinball? practice, practice, practice. Good programmers are often good programmers because this is what they want to be doing. To some it is even more than a job, it is fun. The secret to being better at almost anything is deciding where your own faults are. What are you having trouble in? which parts? do you learn better from a book, or a teacher? There are intro classes at community colleges, there are books in the store, there are pages online for tutorials for free. Which is best for you? you know that answer. good luck!

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

[Fernando A Gomez F]

Keep hanging around here and the forums. You'll learn too much from the site's articles and these guys.

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modified on Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:59 PM

[Steve Echols]

Your sig says it all. Code, code, code til you can't code any more, then code some more. Look at other people's code, modify it to see what affect it has. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, that's how you learn. Buy some books or read tutorials, but focus on a single problem and try to solve it with your code.

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- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

[Asmoa]

thank u all guys for the reply I'm studying programming with c++ and i've bought a book called object-oriented programming in c++ by Robert Lafore as a refrence is it a good book ?? can any body recommend me a good book for beginners

no gain without pain

modified on Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:25 AM

[GuyThiebaut]

Code...if you find yourself sitting looking at the screen for an answer, get up got for a walk or do some exercise. The solutions to my coding problems have tended to come to me when I have let the problems work themselves out, not too unusual for this to happen during a break, or I can wake up in the morning with the solution. Never give up, hold on like a terrier, the solution is there you just have to find it. And you can forget everything else I have said if you forget the one golden rule about what makes a good coder: Enjoy your programming, it needs to be a hobby as well as a job...

You always pass failure on the way to success.

modified on Saturday, April 12, 2008 5:33 AM

[Lost User]

Besides books, there are an awfully large amount of tutorials etc available from the variety of universities and so forth. Such as C++ Annotations[^] and Object-Oriented System Development (HTML Version)[^] and don't forget e-books via places like http://freecomputerbooks.com[^]

[Lost User]

Look at the software engineering aspect. Code Complete[^] is a good reference. Elaine :rose:

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[darkelv]

1. Design and code. 2. Look at code on how to a) make code easier to maintain b) less prone to bugs c) easy to expand/scale d) give user a better life/experience 3. Think on the "how to" in (2). 4. Use knowledge gained in (3), repeat (1).

[Gary R Wheeler]

While your phrasing is a little odd ("far too much"?), I think you had good intentions.

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[SciGama]

just practice practice practice. I remember when i started out. I got the easiest book I can find. Then I just did the exercises over and over and over again so eventually I pretty much read the book over about five times. Try the Microsoft step-by-step books. Those are the books I used when I first started out. It's cool because now six years later I'm at the senior level and I didn't even need a computer science degree. Good luck!

[Fernando A Gomez F]

:confused: Oh my, I thought that was the right way to say it... well, let me change that into a "too much" then. :)

Stupidity is an International Association - Enrique Jardiel Poncela