How did you learn to code? Help aspiring developers by sharing your experience

[Kent Sharkey]

Geekwire[^]:

Seattle-based Code Fellows is asking experienced devs to explain how they originally learned to code in an effort to help those interested in the field.

One semi-colon at a time

[Duncan Edwards Jones]

Listings pages at the back of computer magazines - does anything like that exist now?

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[Phil Martin]

Oh wow, I had forgotten about those. I remember typing in a basic program for measuring race times for a sports carnival at school. I never did find out if it worked. Come to think of it, my QA skills may not have improved much :) I am not sure what the modern equivalent would be, and I'm pretty glad I can just copy and paste now.

[Kent Sharkey]

I agree: I loved those. Sadly, I think the modern equivalent is "Need codez plz"

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[Marc Clifton]

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

does anything like that exist now?

Sure, it's called Stack Overflow. But why look further than CP, when there are thousands of articles, and ever since the nifty feature to peruse article code online, I no longer need to download the zip file! Marc

[Duncan Edwards Jones]

I think there was something about actually having to type in the code (No copy-paste) that made the knowledge stick (or maybe I was just younger and had more brain cells). I think the nearest now would actually be PluralSight...

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