I don’t know how to say this any better, but Cheers, Kevin, a YouTube star, says how to learn to code best. Honestly, I cannot wait to teach all of my kids how to do this. It’s a must.
The question is, what do you need? A book? Experience?
How about a problem to solve.
My first problem was entertaining myself with creating a game. My second was a database manager. My third was to cheat at Yahoo! Checkers. My latest I had created, but never released, was a Youth Ministry app for a check-in service and basic API.
And it was more fun to create the software than it was to use any of these things and the mental challenge was truly great.
Alright, enough from me, enjoy this video of why you need to program. And in the comments, shoot off what coding languages you do know or want to learn.
Let me also state, he does swear at 0:38
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Eric Dye says
#HEART this so hard.
Jeremy Smith says
Coding FTW!
Christopher Battles says
I do not know any code and have not ever wanted to, but he makes a good point in this video for a general think, find something you want to accomplish. I hear writers who do not like to write, but to have written. They are passionate about topics and want to write about. So that might mean learning to get a blog or something going and having the passion of to do stuff to get something done.
Thank you for sharing this.
Eric Dye says
I totally agree.
That’s exactly how I got into working with WordPress and pushing any and all web skills. I was faced with problems within projects I wanted to accomplish and that became my driving force to learn the stuff.
On the more “fun” side of things, my brother had a passion for video games and wanted to become a video game programmer. Fast forward through his high school years and college—and now he toys around with super-computing!
Learning should always be coupled with a motivator—imho. 🙂