Learning coding

Learning has to be fun. Coding is like learning to speak a new language or playing an instrument. Hearing someone play violin or reading a book on it isn't enough to pick up one up and play music. It takes doing and practice, practice, practice! Start small and work your way up to harder projects. For me the fastest thing was to familiarize myself with code syntactically, learning where to use it or where to apply or how a computer works took a bit longer.

Learning code has been a lonely road for me, I never met anyone else that could mentor me. Google/YouTube played a major part in the beginning, they paved the way to learn enough to go to a book store and have the ability to recognize a 'good' book. Second, forums and the people therein, they're amazing, though don't ever attempt to force someone to hold your hand, do your homework (StackOverflow folks are ruthless! haha). Reading the developers manual/notes. Other people's code (it's everywhere). Make it a personal hobby and not just practice at work. Did I mention practice? Don't talk about it - it will cause your brain into thinking you're doing something productive but you're just chomping at the gums, instead refrain and unleash your desires (or whatever you want to call it) with more practice!

EDIT: Oh and by the way "VB.Net for Pc-Dmis 301" I can't recommend enough! I took it shortly when it became available.

Learning has to be fun. Coding is like learning to speak a new language or playing an instrument. Hearing someone play violin or reading a book on it isn't enough to pick up one up and play music. It takes doing and practice, practice, practice! Start small and work your way up to harder projects. For me the fastest thing was to familiarize myself with code syntactically, learning where to use it or where to apply or how a computer works took a bit longer.

Learning code has been a lonely road for me, I never met anyone else that could mentor me. Google/YouTube played a major part in the beginning, they paved the way to learn enough to go to a book store and have the ability to recognize a 'good' book. Second, forums and the people therein, they're amazing, though don't ever attempt to force someone to hold your hand, do your homework (StackOverflow folks are ruthless! haha). Reading the developers manual/notes. Other people's code (it's everywhere). Make it a personal hobby and not just practice at work. Did I mention practice? Don't talk about it - it will cause your brain into thinking you're doing something productive but you're just chomping at the gums, instead refrain and unleash your desires (or whatever you want to call it) with more practice!

EDIT: Oh and by the way "VB.Net for Pc-Dmis 301" I can't recommend enough! I took it shortly when it became available.