I am an Electrical engineering major, but hope to combine a knowledge of computer science/develop programming skills. I hope to use online resources to teach myself,  has anyone done the same before (used online resources to learn)?Do you think it is possible to become very good using such a means? I want to start with python and know I will definitely need some help when I run into problems. Will I be able to get help from the guys here? please any tips/advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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I am an Electrical engineering major, but hopes to combine a knowledge of computer science/develop programming skills. I hope to use online resources to teach myself,  has anyone done the same before (used online resources to learn)?Do you think it is possible to become very good using such a means? I want to start with python and know I will definitely need some help when I run into problems. Will I be able to get help from the guys here? please any tips/advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes, there are a thousand and one top developers who didn't learn to code in a formal school. The biggest example is a certain Bill Gates who dropped out of Havard after enrolling with the plan to read law.

Its all in how you control your state of mind. You can do it, bruv.

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Bill Gates' Early Life
At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine. " After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time. At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language.
Source: Wikipedia.

My advice for you will be to take some programming classes at uni if you can. Unless you only want to write a 'hello world program' then you can teach yourself with online resources.

@csharpjava .
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