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Do something you enjoy. Personally I learnt to program because I wanted to know how computer graphics worked, that led to games and eventually a career. Some
by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Do something you enjoy. Personally I learnt to program because I wanted to know how computer graphics worked, that led to games and eventually a career. Some things I think are fun to play with:
* Logo / turtle graphics (Python has this built in IIRC)
* Fractals, random generation (Mandelbrot blows my mind)
* Learning how games were made (E.g. http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/ http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/)
* Old style graphics engines (SDL, Allegro etc)
* JavaScript / HTML (E.g. a recent experiment: http://www.dpod.com/Canvas/02/ http://www.dpod.com/Canvas/02/)
* Exploring new languages (Scheme, Python, Assembly... recently Clojure)
As you can see some of this is new, some old, some useful, some just interesting. Explore, enjoy, learn programming as a side effect!