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Is it? A couple of million people have learnt to code quite well. Some learnt quickly, others after lot of time and effort. Most are still learning after yea
by CyberFonic 12y ago
Is it? A couple of million people have learnt to code quite well. Some learnt quickly, others after lot of time and effort. Most are still learning after years of experience.
Learning something new is generally difficult. For example, a baby doesn't just stand up and walk. Most people don't just get on a bike and pedal away the very first time.
If you would like some help from HN folks, perhaps you could tell us what language(s) you have tried, describe how you find learning to code difficult, what you have tried and what the results have been so far. Doing so might elicit feedback that is in line with your experiences to date.
- stevekemp 12y agoI can code in Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Assembly language, and more. Learning new languages is pretty simple if they're in a family I know. I read/write/speak English well. Learning Finnish? Painful. Slow. Hard. On that basis learning code feels too easy!
- Adminman 12y agoI have the opposite. I speak fluently 4 languages and could pick up another language (spanish) easily. But I can't code. I'm still trying to learn Java but I'm stuck all the time.
- kbenson 12y ago> Learning new languages is pretty simple if they're in a family I know. Does your list of languages include fairly disparate examples, such as languages that do not have a Latin base or share a portion of their vocabulary with ones you know? I think the point being made was the type of language learned. Shared concepts reduce learning time. Knowing Perl, Ruby, Assembly, etc may not help too much learning something like Haskell or Clojure. Knowing Lisp might help quite a bit. Prolog would be another thing entirely.
- irascible 12y agoJava has lots of confusing boilerplate.. do javascript in chrome! The IDE is built in to chrome so you will have dev tools -everywhere- you are!!