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Topic	Are any of these books good for learning to program/code?
Dikitain 12/30/17 8:08:51 AM #8:	Honestly the best and fastest way to learn coding is to be given a fully working project, use it, study it, and mess around with it to change what it does. Sure books will help but there is no substitute for getting your hands dirty. My first programming book was basically just the source code for 100 or so games written in BASIC, and that taught me more about programming then my first 2 years of college. That said, without looking at the content the books in my opinion don't even begin to get into useful territory until the $15 tier, and even then there are some HUGE omissions. No Java, Python, C++, etc. (I.E. The programming languages most people actually use)? I mean Ruby is nice but hasn't been relevant in at least 10 years. C# only really is useful if you are programming Windows apps, yet there is no book on Visual Studio. A Javascript book without a PHP/JSP or HTML5 book? Just seems like they are giving you a random selection of books but nothing to actually do something useful with. --- I am a senior software engineer. If you see me post here, I am tired of writing TPS reports. <cite>Dikitain posted [p:893114526] in Are any of... [t:76150880]...</cite> <quote>Honestly the best and fastest way to learn coding is to be given a fully working project, use it, study it, and mess around with it to change what it does. Sure books will help but there is no substitute for getting your hands dirty. My first programming book was basically just the source code for 100 or so games written in BASIC, and that taught me more about programming then my first 2 years of college. That said, without looking at the content the books in my opinion don't even begin to get into useful territory until the $15 tier, and even then there are some HUGE omissions. No Java, Python, C++, etc. (I.E. The programming languages most people actually use)? I mean Ruby is nice but hasn't been relevant in at least 10 years. C# only really is useful if you are programming Windows apps, yet there is no book on Visual Studio. A Javascript book without a PHP/JSP or HTML5 book? Just seems like they are giving you a random selection of books but nothing to actually do something useful with. --- I am a senior software engineer. If you see me post here, I am tired of writing TPS reports.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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