Almost every specialty of a technical university has a programming course. And it is no coincidence: this skill is not only basic for some areas of activity, but also useful for ordinary computer users.
Instructions
Step 1
Learn the basics of algorithms. The computer does not distinguish anything more than "1" and "0" or "yes" and "no". For the program to work correctly, you need to reduce it to zeros and ones. The programming environment can do most of this work, but not all. The program is based primarily on a sequence of actions and conditions: “Is the room hot? Well no. If "yes", execute "open window". The language of algorithms is the same for all programming environments, and without understanding it, you, in principle, will not be able to start writing a serious program.
Step 2
Choose language. To consider yourself a good programmer, you need to roughly understand the features of all languages and be able to write in each of them. On the other hand, you are unlikely to constantly use even two programming options, so it makes sense to learn the only one that is most needed. Each framework is applied rather narrowly: Java is used mainly for building applications on mobile devices.
Step 3
Select a programming environment. It is unlikely that you can write a useful and functional program right away, so it makes sense to choose the most "inconvenient" Borland environment. It also works under Dos and has a corresponding graphical interface. The advantage of this environment is that you will feel the peculiarities of the language “on yourself”, because you just need to skip one comma and the program in Borland will stop working. Modern environments like Visual Studio will fix minor bugs on their own. This is useful, but at a later stage.
Step 4
Start programming with the tutorial. Learning a language on your own will be an unnecessary complication of life: the literature is written clearly, accessible, and most importantly - with constant examples and tasks for applying knowledge in practice. The program will be born after the first lesson, and this will give an excellent incentive for subsequent work.
