Do you Find Coding Hard?

[Captured Enigma]

I can never really get my head around code, is this silly? I mean I have tried studying it but it just annoys me haha 😛

 

[Carson]

It takes time and practice, and it's even easier if you have someone to mentor you.

And most importantly, it takes doing it and messing up. Come up with a silly demo program that you want to write, and just go and write it. Alternatively, write yourself a personal website to keep track of notes. Google how to do what you want to do at each step.

 

[Panik]

I've never really had an issue with learning to code. I came from a programming background as well as being taught on a Linux based computer as a child, so I've been brought up by a command line, which is what a lot of people fear, getting past that and then learning the whole logical concepts of a language like C++ or Python will go a very long way to learning to code in PHP or even HTML.

If you're really after the chance to learn to code, take it slow and try to think about it logically, you can't assume the machine will understand anything that you're attempting to accomplish.

 

[pandaa]

I wouldn't say hard is the right word, but it's definitely challenging. At times, it can be very frustrating, but watching a project come together is very rewarding!

 

[Cosmic]

It takes time and practice, and it's even easier if you have someone to mentor you.

And most importantly, it takes doing it and messing up. Come up with a silly demo program that you want to write, and just go and write it. Alternatively, write yourself a personal website to keep track of notes. Google how to do what you want to do at each step.

I agree with what Carson said. 🙂 It can be difficult to learn, but once you figure out how to think a certain way, it comes naturally. It's like learning a language such as Getman or French. At first it is incomprehensible, and then entirely intuitive.

 

[leelanarasimha]

Coding is really not hard if you interest in learning.

It needs some logical thinking to develop coding skills

 

[LightHD]

Depends, which language you're coding with. HTML is the easiest coding language I know.

 

[cyimking]

Honestly, C / C++ is very difficult for me to code in and that's because I was never taught how to use it properly but I now, I am being forced to use it to code algorithms / projects. Mainly because you have to deal with memory alloc, pointers, etc... which is fine but c++ isn't for me. Like to initialize a double array with a non constant variable isn't as simply as you would think.

But besides that. coding isn't hard. You either can do it or you can't really.

 

[Saruman]

A few coding languages come natural to me, the others I have to keep using them otherwise they slowly drift from my "coding skills" :lol:

 

[Reverse Flash]

Things like HTML or CSS are pretty easy to learn, if you put some work into it. JS/jQuery are a bit harder, and the rest of the coding languages IMO take a lot of work to learn.

 

[Saruman]

Like Cookie said, also the ones that you use everyday will be easier to remember if you took a break from using them than the ones that you don't use everyday.

 

[Cosmic]

@cyimking: Don't worry, you're not the only person who has trouble with C++. :lol: I only know of one person where I work who is really in to C++, and most of us see his as kind of crazy because of it. 😛 I guess it all depends on what kind of stuff you do, but at least where I work, we use C# or Java for writing large software applications and GUIs, and we use Python or Perl for writing scripts that do number crunching.

 

[MasterA]

I am learning atm but it seems pretty easy. Probably because I am doing HTML. I guess with more practice and online resources, it isn't too hard.

 

[Reverse Flash]

I am learning atm but it seems pretty easy. Probably because I am doing HTML. I guess with more practice and online resources, it isn't too hard.

Yeah, HTML is relatively easy to learn. I took the CodeCademy course and I learned it pretty quickly. Same with CSS. JS took much longer, as it's an actual coding language (HTML & CSS are mark-up languages) and now I'm learning PHP.