How to Learn to Program » Code Simplicity
One question that people ask me all the time is, "How do I become a programmer?" Or, "How do I learn to program?" There are a lot of possible answers to this, depending on the person and how you want to go about it. I figured that since people ask me this so often, I had better finally write an article about it.
Find the Best Way
One rule that has served me well when I've been learning to program, no matter the method I was using, was to always ask, "What's the best way to accomplish this?" or "What's the right way to accomplish this?" That is, in programming there are many different routes you can take to accomplish your task. But usually, only one of those is the recommended way, either in terms of the most modern way to do it in your programming language, or the best practices that the community of programmers have agreed on based on experience. Usually, you can find out this information by reading the documentation of the programming language you're learning, or searching online for a best practice via Google or Stack Overflow. If you can't find the answers, ask the question on a forum, mailing list, or Stack Overflow. I still do all of this, to this day, when I'm given a task where I have to learn something that I don't know about.
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