I believe Python is an ideal language to learn how to code in, and when you get it, you can still build advanced programs with it, because it is a very matured language. It is free, has a great and helpful community (for the inevitable time when you get stuck), and has libraries for just about anything in the world (Biology, Astronomy, Data Analysis, Computer Game design, etc).

Here is a compilation of online resources with which to start your journey: http://noeticforce.com/best-free-tutorials-to-learn-python-pdfs-ebooks-online-interactive.

I tried about 2week.at least It worked.thanks a lot

Thanks iam new in programming

! it depends on lots of factor. Like your chosen field..., if you do elect/elect and DIY stuffs i.e you want to communicate with hardwares and ports, you learn C. or object oriented using C# or Java or Arduino, matlab.

pwetie:
nibbleng omg! it depends on lots of factor. Like your chosen field..., if you do elect/elect and DIY stuffs i.e you want to communicate with hardwares and ports, you learn C. or object oriented using C# or Java or Arduino, matlab.

hello...love seeinq gals in programming section..thumb up

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am still a computer sciecnce undergraduate i think i have a lot to learn from u

Spent the weekend practicing JavaScript and at least I'm getting somewhere.. From JavaScript to Jquery > bootstrap > revision of HTML and CSS then from there I could move to server side scripting languages

Still have a long way to go but I know I must get there.

stack1:


i hav been a web-dev for years so trust me when i say W3cschools is too soft core,there's just too much they left out of their tutorials, to me.its best for reference (and i still use it for that) but you'll need better tutorials to get the full gist of many web-dev languages u say u built a Cgpa calculator, bro thats basic stuff resarch into writing say a natural language parser in JS then you'll see w3c has only taught you the rudiments and at best let you know the syntax

Very correct. The irony is: Even senior devs still use W3schools for reference purposes. I use them sometimes to work on css gradients and some stuff. To be honest with Id be scared to hire you if you learnt all you claim from only W3Schools

MrKamar:
Spent the weekend practicing JavaScript and at least I'm getting somewhere.. From JavaScript to Jquery > bootstrap > revision of HTML and CSS then from there I could move to server side scripting languages

Still have a long way to go but I know I must get there.

Don't loose that drive, same drive that got me started 5+ years ago.

Please can someone explain this code to me? It's JavaScript. I have been trying to understand it but I can't figure how the script returns 500 which is maximum number in the argument.

Pls come to my aid. I'm a newbie

<script>
function findMax() {
var i, max = 0;
for (i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
if (arguments[i] > max) {
max = arguments[i];
}
}
return max;
}

document.write( findMax(1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88)) //returns 500
</script>

Newbie,I'm interested in c# but I am confused on the ide to use. So which should I go for: visual studio express,mono develop, sharp develop or xamarin studio...Also is there any other tools I would need?

MrKamar:
Please can someone explain this code to me? It's JavaScript. I have been trying to understand it but I can't figure how the script returns 500 which is maximum number in the argument.

Pls come to my aid. I'm a newbie

<script>
function findMax() {
var i, max = 0;
for (i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
if (arguments[i] > max) {
max = arguments[i];
}
}
return max;
}

document.write( findMax(1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88)) //returns 500
</script>

Am not much of a javascript person, but from my experience with other programming languages i can tell you this:
"findMax" in that code is a function that was declared with the keyword "function"
in that function, two variables were declared "i" and "max"
with the intention of using "i" as our counter to loop through the arguments. and "max" to hild the maximum value. what the for loop is doing is "it equates "i" to zero for the first iteration and checks if "zero" is less than the number of "arguments parsed into the function "findMax", if it is it goes to the if statement to check if the argument with the index of "zero" is greater than "max" if it is then the value of max is replaced by the value of the agrument with that index, else it goes back to the if statement and adds one to the value of "i" and repeats the loop, recall it checks to be sure "i" is less than the number of items in the argument

creamyworkz:


Am not much of a javascript person, but from my experience with other programming languages i can tell you this:
"findMax" in that code is a function that was declared with the keyword "function"
in that function, two variables were declared "i" and "max"
with the intention of using "i" as our counter to loop through the arguments. and "max" to hild the maximum value. what the for loop is doing is "it equates "i" to zero for the first iteration and checks if "zero" is less than the number of "arguments parsed into the function "findMax", if it is it goes to the if statement to check if the argument with the index of "zero" is greater than "max" if it is then the value of max is replaced by the value of the agrument with that index, else it goes back to the if statement and adds one to the value of "i" and repeats the loop, recall it checks to be sure "i" is less than the number of items in the argument

How does the program now returns 500? The rest arguments are greater than 0. Why did the program returns 500, how does it know that 500 is greater than the rest arguments?

MrKamar:


How does the program now returns 500? The rest arguments are greater than 0. Why did the program returns 500, how does it know that 500 is greater than the rest arguments?

looking at the function being called by this statement

document.write( findMax(1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88))

the arguments parsed are "1" "123" "500" "115" "44" "88" however in programming, these numbers are automatically assigned the index numbers "0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" respectively, which is represented by the "i"
now this is what happens:
it starts at i=0 and picks the argument with that index, then runs the following block of code:
if (arguments[i] > max) {
max = arguments[i];
}
which aimply means if the argument with index "i" (note that at the beginning i=0 so the argument at index 0 is "1" ) is greater than "max" (note that at the begining max =0 ) then the value of "the argument at index "i" should be assigned to max(i.e the value of max should change to the value of that argument). and then the loop repeats itself again after adding 1 to the value of "i" (simply put it moves to the next index and picks the value of the argument with that index in this case "123". kapish

creamyworkz:

looking at the function being called by this statement

document.write( findMax(1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88))

the arguments parsed are "1" "123" "500" "115" "44" "88" however in programming, these numbers are automatically assigned the index numbers "0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" respectively, which is represented by the "i"
now this is what happens:
it starts at i=0 and picks the argument with that index, then runs the following block of code:
if (arguments[i] > max) {
max = arguments[i];
}
which aimply means if the argument with index "i" (note that at the beginning i=0 so the argument at index 0 is "1" ) is greater than "max" (note that at the begining max =0 ) then the value of "the argument at index "i" should be assigned to max(i.e the value of max should change to the value of that argument). and then the loop repeats itself again after adding 1 to the value of "i" (simply put it moves to the next index and picks the value of the argument with that index in this case "123". kapish

I know what you're explaining. What I'm asking is that how does the loop knows 500 is greater than the rest arguments. I also know that I could simply do this by using the Math.max() but I want to know how it works

MrKamar:


I know what you're explaining. What I'm asking is that how does the loop knows 500 is greater than the rest arguments. I also know that I could simply do this by using the Math.max() but I want to know how it works

I am not much of a programmer, but i will try to interprete. From creamyworkz explanation i figured these;

1. The for loop will keep executing the "if" statement while increamenting i by one each time until i<arguments.length stop being true.

2. arguments.length appears to be 6 (1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88)

3. As for the "if" statement, it does its indexing conversion thing ,compares values (1, 123, 500, 115, 44, 88) with the current value of max and if greater it assign value to max for each iteration.

4. because 115 and 44 are less than 500, max maintain its value at 500.

5. at the for loop, the moment i=6 the loop stops because i<arguments.length no longer holds (6<6).

6. The last statement executes, return max (max=500)

I hope the logic is clear now.

Javanian:


If you want to develop Android apps, Java is the thing for you...

Hi, I wanna learn how to develop Android apps but not only that, I still wanna learn to code and almost anything and also be able to develop web pages

Can you give me a combination to go with?

Like Java + Python and what other for web page development,

What evwr reference you give to me is accepted be it your personal programing language you like, whatever I will go with it since you are the boss

MrKamar:


I know what you're explaining. What I'm asking is that how does the loop knows 500 is greater than the rest arguments. I also know that I could simply do this by using the Math.max() but I want to know how it works

What I believe is that the loop through the means that i don't know assigns the highest value (500) to arguements[i] which is also assigned to variable max.

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I am a novice in programming, so pardon this question.
I have learned some code in programming but after writing all these codes, are there softwares that can translate it into something like games, apps, etc.

I'm happy to release the first official release of the BucketJS library version 0.1.0.
The aim of the library is to implement namespacing system which is present in languages like c++, php and so on. I hope you guys can help embrace it and improving.
Because having a class or context per file makes you more organized and its always easy to amend errors since you know the class having fault, you just go straight to file to fix it.

I will be more happy if you all can embrace the concept. behind the library. I will like you all to give your comments for that's what help in improving the library.


# BucketJS Library
* it tries to help you make your codes well organised i.e. a class per file
...* var control = Bucket('App/Core/Controller') matches app/core/controller.js file in the base directory.
...* Bucket(['App/Game'], function(){
this.init = function(){
console.log('game started');
}
}); // matches www/app/game.js
...* you will find some examples below
* trying to implement Namespacing in the other languages
* Include the src/Bucket.js file in your page and you are set to use it.
* The dist directory consists of the different aspects implemented into the library

it is very simple to use
/**
* the files are fetched from a default folder App e.g. www/app, www/js/app
* you can also set the base directory where the app folder is
* e.g. Bucket({fetch: true, base: js/app/});
* it will fetch the files from www/js/app directory
*/

// to define a class, the classname must match the path to the file
// file: www/app/core/hello.js
Bucket(['App/Core/Hello'], function(){
this.call = function(){
alert('hello world');
}
});

// file: www/index.html including the library
// to get the instantiated copy
var hello = Bucket('App/Core/Hello');
hello.call(); // 'hello world'

/**
* defining a class with dependencies to other classes
* a class can have as many dependencies as possible but they will all
* be passed as parameters in the order they were declared to the class depending on them.
* if a dependency depends on another class they all get passed for the library
* is smart enough to sort that.
*/
// file: www/app/core/welcome.js

Bucket(['App/Core/Welcome', ['App/Core/Hello', 'App/Core/Bye']], function(hello, bye){
// the hello param will be an object of App\Core\Hello::class
this.welcome = function(){
hello.call();
}

this.bye = function(){
bye.bye();
}
});

// file; www/app/core/bye.js
Bucket(['App/Core/Bye'], function(){
this.bye = function(){
alert('Thank you for trying me out. Courtesy: BucketJS');
}
});

// file: www/index.html including the library
// to get the instantiated copy
var app = Bucket('App/Core/Welcome');
app.welcome(); // => 'hello world'
app.bye() // => 'Thank you for trying me out. Courtesy: BucketJS'

composer: require heywhy/bucketjs
github link:
https//github.com/heywhy/BucketJS


when defining a class if 'App' is not part of the definition it assumes that the namespace is a subpath in tbe app directory. e.g
Bucket(['Core/Hello'], function(){
this.call = function(){
alert('hello');
}
});

defaults to App/Core/Hello.js, if 'App' was included it is omitted before requiring the file;

if a file has been require before it gets cached, while subsequent calls to file will be fetched from the cache instead of requesting it from the server, which can be an overkill.