Stumbling Through

2020-01-13T20:51:00.000+05:30

DARING

We all have some feeling in those moments when we are about to start something new; thrill is it? Or is it just the fear of failure?

Well, at least the fact that we’ve dared to try should be enough for all the haters.

With the introductions aside we should be all set to dare our way into this megacosm of programming.

What the heck is PROGRAMMING???

You ever gave instructions to a 4 year old? If not lemme tell you it’s a tedious repetitive task of telling them; go there, turn left, turn right, get that. The very command ‘get that’ would cause what programmers call syntax error, cuz it’s something the kid doesn’t understand.

See computers aren’t yet that intelligent 🧠 as Alexa and Siri might seem, (I mean at the core level, when you gotta be the one building them). They understand only a specific set of instructions. Like I said ‘get that’ would be a syntax error, cuz that’s something out of the child’s dictionary, similarly we gotta make sure we use grammar and vocabulary within the computer’s dictionary or grammar book.

This usage of some set vocabulary to say something to a computer is called (you should’ve guessed by now) PROGRAMMING.

What I told you guys was how someone would explain programming to a newbie, if you want something like what a computer science teacher would want, here you go:

A computer is a computational device which is used to process the data under the control of a computer program. Program is a sequence of instruction along with data. While executing the program, raw data is processed into a desired output format. These computer programs are written in a programming language which are high level languages. High level languages are nearly human languages which are more complex than the computer understandable language which are called machine language, or low level language.

Damn! Aren’t professors boring!

Now that you know what is programming, let’s see how you can stumble through it’s realm and manage to survive if not thrive the next few decades.

starting programming

What To-Do?

Don’t worry just learn a language.

I’m already failing language arts, don’t wanna learn another one.

Chill, I just mean learn a programming language.

Programming Language

The computer understands only a specific set of vocabulary right? But it does so in multiple languages. Like we humans over the world have evolved different languages based on where we live the computer speaks various languages depending upon what we command it to do.

The computer like us speaks some languages more fluently than others, speaks some fast while others slow, some are easy to learn while some don’t make the least sense.

There are some languages I world specifically recommend if you’re gonna start programming.

*Don’t blame me if I’m particularly biased towards Python, couldn’t but loving it.

Great languages to learn: (Even if it’s your first time)

1) Python 🐍

2) Java 🍵

3) C++

4) C#

5) JavaScript/Typescript

6) Go

7) Rust

8) R

9) Ruby 🛑

Now that you have some languages to learn, you should probably get on with that. Al the best and happy programming!!! Don’t let the bugs bite.

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