How to Become a Programmer - wikiHow(wikihow.com)
wikihow.com
How to Become a Programmer - wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Programmer#Steps
10 comments
What a terrific article! I found a video on how to play the flute, split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, and how to irrigate the Sahara desert and create vast areas of viable farmland, and finally how to cure all known diseases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
They missed embedded systems programming - writing software to control physical or electrical devices or calculate measurements from sensory apparatus. This would include PLC programming, microcontrollers, motion controllers, kinematics, control theory and so on. This area of software has features which are somewhat distinctive from the other types mentioned. Increasingly embedded systems are everywhere, not only in mobile phones, and there are multiple such systems in modern road vehicles.
I don't know many people that aren't going to be put off programming by that 1/2 to 1 year preparation on only theory.
A redeeming part of that page is that for each programming career, there is a decent list of useful pointers.
A redeeming part of that page is that for each programming career, there is a decent list of useful pointers.
Oh wikiHow, where would we be without you?
http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-a-Great-Tasting-Steak
http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-a-Great-Tasting-Steak
I noticed this gem in the "Programming Scientists" section:
"Putting worcestershire sauce on volume 1 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming and stabbing it with a fork until pudding-like."
"Putting worcestershire sauce on volume 1 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming and stabbing it with a fork until pudding-like."
I need to flag this because I cannot flag the original.
"You can use any simple database package to do this, such as MS access, DB V, Fox Pro..."
Written before most of us were born.
Written before most of us were born.
Does anyone else have a good tutorial or recommendation?
Norvig's Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years is what I normally recommend people read if they really want to learn how to program.
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
"How to become a programmer". Must. Learn. Logic.
Also, placing "learn paradigms" at a time before the student knows any language is going to be useless rote memorization that the student will have no idea how to implement when the time comes.
Why does the article start off extremely specific and then just dump into "3. then learn programming"?
Finally, the categories of programmers aren't really an accurate reflection of the software industry. You will have to span multiple of those groups, and you'll never be dedicated to any one of them.