emmaeno:

Great Programmers,i greet you all,i am an undergradute i want to be a programmer but i don?t have money to pay to learn.but i no tere are so many out there that wants to pass knowledge to others and are willing to help.please help me.

okechukwu.diei:

u nid to have good problem solving skills, a thorough understanding of computer hardware, d theoretical aspects such as binary arithmetic, boolean logic, etc. U also shld learn programming concepts such as control structures, algorithm complexity & efficiency, language paradigms,

njira:

emmaeno ~ my dear there are free online downloadable tutorials, but you'll have to pick a language first ~ a free downloadable tutorial, a programming language and a computer and you are ready to subdue

iGravity:

Algorithms complexity, efficiency and language paradigms are too much ado for nothing. To get up from the ground and go, start with a "Hello World" program. Start with something you can code and see immediate results. The languages I am most fluent in are Ruby, C/C++ and Objective-C - listed in the order of their complications. There are free resources to learn these online.

omo_to_dun:


I have friends who are gurus at programming and suck at the analysis and I also have friends who are the exact opposite. Honestly, you'd be hard-pressed to find folks who are good at both. [/i]

nna_bu_ike:

I enjoy developing software even though my background is Physics/Math/Elect. Eng

omo_to_dun:

Notice that I said "guru", you said "excellent"; there is a huge difference. There are millions of excellent programmers, but few are gurus. If you are a regular on this site, you'd know that most programmers here claim to be the best thing since C++. Instead of telling me that your friends are excellent, show me. What have they done?


Yes I noticed your "guru" but I don't see how that affects what I am objecting to. I had a problem with your suggestion that it was not possible/very unlikely for a guru in programming to have a capacity for analysis, also what you were referring to as analysis resembled very much skills that would be expected in the hard sciences(maths, physics etc)

I don't really know how you want me to show you what I(my friends) have done. Upload code? Not possible. References to some published product/solutions? You should already have realized that we are not software developers. I personally regard C/C++ as just one of various tools to be used in my work, an elementary example is microcontroller programming.

I suppose that this brings back your supposed distinction between "excellent" and "guru". Most excellent programmer can become "gurus" if they choose to specialize in software development (and maybe if they add some business sense)


This quote leads me to think that you do not understand analysis of algorithm, because being good at Math is actually a prerequisite to being good at analysis of algorithm. So I do not understand why you used the phrase "even though". Most renowned Computer Scientists and Software Developers actually majored in those disciplines that you listed. For example, Physics---Richard Stallman & Math---the almighty Donald Knuth.