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I've tried to get started a few times and I am finding it to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done in my life. I think there is something in my brain tha

aerique 13y ago
I've tried to get started a few times and I am finding it to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done in my life. I think there is something in my brain that is completely against what is involved with coding; it's like I have some cognitive-allergic reaction to it. Nah, that's just what's it is like learning to code. You just have to get through it and get more experienced. Once you're past the frustrating parts it becomes really enjoyable. However, I don't know what language you're starting out with but that also makes a huge difference. Some approaches just click better with people than others. I love Lisp, others can't stand it. I hate C pointer syntax, it always confuses me while I had no problems with 'pointers' in 68000 assembly for example. Just try out a couple of languages.
- raymondduke 13y ago
  A couple of languages have been suggested to me already. I just don't know what one is best for my purposes. I was told to start with HTML5 and CSS3. Someone told me to stay away from Django, but to learn Python. Does all code get the same results? Is it just a matter of preference? Or can some code do things that other code can't , thus making certain goals only possible with certain language?
  - aerique 13y ago
    For what you're trying to do it is mostly a matter of preference. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit)
  - adrik 13y ago
    http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/ http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/ is an excellent introduction into just-enough-code to make something. coffeescript is a much easier to understand javascript and if you combine it with node.js to do a web app, you can code your entire project in one language (plus some html and css markup).
    - raymondduke 13y ago
      I'm checking it out, thanks. From what I've been told, what I want to do is a "big project" -- in the words of another commenter: "you're going to need front end design and code (html, css and javascript), some sort of server side code (php, python, ruby, c# ...) and a database of some sort (MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle ...). the best place to start would be html and css though" So far the link you shared seems to be doing a good job of introducing code at the entry level, but as being able to code my entire project with it, I am skeptical.

aerique 13y ago

I've tried to get started a few times and I am finding it to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done in my life. I think there is something in my brain that is completely against what is involved with coding; it's like I have some cognitive-allergic reaction to it. Nah, that's just what's it is like learning to code. You just have to get through it and get more experienced. Once you're past the frustrating parts it becomes really enjoyable. However, I don't know what language you're starting out with but that also makes a huge difference. Some approaches just click better with people than others. I love Lisp, others can't stand it. I hate C pointer syntax, it always confuses me while I had no problems with 'pointers' in 68000 assembly for example. Just try out a couple of languages.

raymondduke 13y ago
A couple of languages have been suggested to me already. I just don't know what one is best for my purposes. I was told to start with HTML5 and CSS3. Someone told me to stay away from Django, but to learn Python. Does all code get the same results? Is it just a matter of preference? Or can some code do things that other code can't , thus making certain goals only possible with certain language?
- aerique 13y ago
  For what you're trying to do it is mostly a matter of preference. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit)
- adrik 13y ago
  http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/ http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/ is an excellent introduction into just-enough-code to make something. coffeescript is a much easier to understand javascript and if you combine it with node.js to do a web app, you can code your entire project in one language (plus some html and css markup).
  - raymondduke 13y ago
    I'm checking it out, thanks. From what I've been told, what I want to do is a "big project" -- in the words of another commenter: "you're going to need front end design and code (html, css and javascript), some sort of server side code (php, python, ruby, c# ...) and a database of some sort (MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle ...). the best place to start would be html and css though" So far the link you shared seems to be doing a good job of introducing code at the entry level, but as being able to code my entire project with it, I am skeptical.