Why learn programming in 2022?
We use electronic devices everyday. Be it a computer, mobile, tablet. On these devices, we use different applications, websites, and utilities. Can you think of anything that these have in common? I mean they are all used on computers, of course, but is there something else common here?
Yes! All of them use the power of programming to function. Some of you may be surprised to see websites on this list. Now what if you could create these on your own? DIY sites? I know it'd be really cool indeed! But to do so, you need to learn programming yourself.
How learn programming?
So what exactly is programming? It is the act of giving the computer instructions to perform a specific task, nothing else. You have to learn something known as a programming language to do so which help us to communicate with a computer. It's just like learning a normal language, where you have to learn it's grammar, words, and syntax. These languages include C++, JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, Kotlin, and many more! Using these programming languages you can:
- Create computer applications for different tasks using C++, Java, etc.
- Create different kinds of websites using mainly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Create AI applications for text recognition, image matching, and other AI tasks using Python, C++, etc.
- Create different mobile applications such as calculators, word processor, etc. using Kotlin, Java, etc.
Build up your logic and understanding
While writing code with any programming language, you need logic. Logic to explore new solutions, and to figure out how to do a specific thing. You also need the basic understanding of programming. These basic concepts can be applied for any programming language, ranging from drag-and-drop block languages like scratch, to low-level and complex languages like C++. To understand these concepts and build up your core logic, start with something simple...
HTML, CSS, JS is a system that is the base of most websites you see today. It's has JS (JavaScript), which is a very simple language, and is used for the backend of 95% of the websites. You can learn JS very easily just by watching a YouTube tutorial, but before that you must learn HTML and CSS, which you can do easily here, and then you can watch a JS tutorial like this one.
Python is another simple language that you can learn, but while JS is mainly used for making websites, Python is used for making computer application and games. Just like JS, it's incredibly simple to learn and use, and thus is used extensively in the field of AI by both beginners and professionals. Here is a really easy to grasp Python tutorial on freecodecamp by Mike. Note that the concepts you learned in JS really help to learn Python, or in fact, any programming language quicker.
Congratulations! You have completed the first stage of learning to code!
What's next?
Now it's time to ask yourself a question. What do you really wish to do with programming? If you wish to continue building websites, go on with JS. You may also try different extensions for JS such as jQuery. You may also wish to learn Node.js. You can also combine C++ with JS to make your website code faster.
If you wish to go with software development, make sure to check out C++ and the .NET framework and go with whatever you're comfortable with. C++ is a very fast language as it's a mid-level language, and is compiled. .NET is a framework by Microsoft to build cross-platform applications with programming languages like C#, VB (Visual Basic), F#, etc.
Hope you found this helpful. Thank you for reading!
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