Programming/Coding Software

[Spoutnik]

Hi, I would like to learn some kind of programmo,g/Coding things, but idk where I need to start ?
A older friend in last years of engineering studies send me a PDF but I think it's to difficult to start.
You can use this topic for share you achievements.

[Fabien]

Hi,

I am a software engineer, so I guess I can help. What do you want to program ? Anything specific like an android app, an embedded system of some kind (arduino), something web related ?

Otherwise, I would advise you to start by python. It is free, very readable, lots of already build-in stuff that allows to focus on what's more fun to program. For data analysis (since we are on an F1 Forum), there many mathematic and graphic libraries available. There are many tutorials around and a very complete and readable free reference book "Dive into Python".

[Greg Locock]

Python is relatively easy, high level, interactive, roughly as fast as matlab for number crunching once you've hooked in an in-line compiler (I don't know how but you can), and free.

However it would be pretty damn useless for writing pretty games, so I suggest you need to nominate what sort of thing you want to write.

[Spoutnik]

How I can learn to use him ?

Actually I'm not going to write games I think, but my friend told me, for the start, it's better to create game and after only some algorythm, website. (I will start with game )

[Fabien]

Personnally, when I want to learn a new language, I often start by writing some small games that can be displayed in a console/terminal. For instance a sudoku solver...

https://projecteuler.net/ also provides a great number of problems to solve using programming with various complexity. And examples of solutions are provided in many languages.

But first, since I believe you are a French speaker, I would start with an introductory tutorial such as http://openclassrooms.com/courses/appre ... -en-python

[Phil]

My first programming language I studied and learned was just good old C. Used to love how many hundreds of errors the compiler would throw at you if you just misspelt a semicolon or something - but the good thing is, it would really teach you the hard way how to avoid making silly mistakes.

Definately better than many newer high level programming languages that are just too forgiving. I remember a time when every single thing needed to be initialized. OO has made writing nice code a lot more easy, but I definately appreciate having learned programming without it.

[Richard]

Happy days of Basic, Pascal & Fortran! One spelling error or errant punctuation could crash the entire progam.

[Spoutnik]

Thanks for your answers, I would like to create Software to calculate some results (we have a pronostic championship..) and after I will go to web related things or Android app, small games idk..

Then, I learn C or Python ?

[dans79]

Happy days of Basic, Pascal & Fortran! One spelling error or errant punctuation could crash the entire progam.

Fortran is still lighting fast when it comes to pure number crunching, specially when you get into differential equations and complex numbers.

For web, I would recommend PHP.

[Greg Locock]

I don't think you'll be writing Android apps in python, so if you only want to learn one language you might think about Java

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_s ... evelopment

or C would be OK

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=i+want+to+learn+to+program+in+C

[Spoutnik]

I will go for C, maybe.

You guys, which languages you learn in first ?

[Greg Locock]

for java

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction ... 9-71205385

I learned machine code first

[OliviaB]

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[Cold Fussion]

It would be hard to look past Java, C# or Swift if one was looking for a general purpose programming language to learn at the moment.

[Steven]

I'll add my 2 cents...

I'm rather proficient in Java (mostly used for business software) and PHP (mostly used for web applications), but one interesting language to start off with may be Golang. This produces programs that run without the need for additional libraries. It's more and more used to create batch-style utilities.

Syntax wise, Java, C or C# may be good options.

You can use free IDEs like Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, ... to get started quickly.

I'm sure you can find some youtube tutorials on how to build a Hello world application in any of these languages.