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Old 07-18-2015, 02:58 PM   #5
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Default Re: Computer Programming - Advice/Help Please!

As a start don't feel that starting at a high class University is necessary. Set up some credit transfer paths to numerous universities, from some colleges or technical schools, then dive in somewhere cheap. Take 6 months to a year trying out the different types of programming, as Dossar described, to find out what you're interested in. Focus in on your interests at the same, or another, cheap school to gain the rudimentary skills required to really grasp what it is you'll be starting in on. When you're done with that, if you're still interested, apply for the schools you've set up and transfer your courses in for the electives/filler classes you really don't need for a programming degree.

As for learning to program yourself, I would highly recommend struggling through all of the "impossible challenges of learning programming" now. Crash and burn by yourself, get frustrated by yourself, lack understanding of all of the topics before you go to school. That way when the teacher explains the topic instead of being stuck or confused you'll just laugh at how easy it seems.

There are a lot of resources online to start learning to program.
https://www.khanacademy.org/computin...er-programming
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
https://www.hackerrank.com/
https://www.codecademy.com/

Start somewhere now and fail the easy things early, while it doesn't count.
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