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This is the best advice:

Start with easy languages, don't be ashamed you can begin with even VB or Basic to be familiar with programming and it's syntax.
Start off with simple languages like HTML/CSS for website development. Install HTML kit IDE and bootstrap.
Start with C, or C++, Java, C# for software development, install Visual Studio, and Netbeans IDE.
Get a very good book.
Get a course instructor.
Take courses on a particular language.
Join development communities on telegram, GitHub, stackoverflow, and read articles on sites like code project.
Practice, Practice, Practice!!!
You must be determined, and passionate about it to go further.
Make sure you learn the basics, and make use of frameworks.

His very intelligent. I know very much about him, you should see the foresights he has for technology, Infact, he stated that: “I want to reach out to over 1 million Nigerians, of any age, and teach them programming. Because I believe the next generation can bring a technology revolution, so I'm doing it for free. I believe that as many people have little insights on computer science, especially the artisans and the unenlightened, together, because we Nigerians understand the benefits, we can fix the nation with as many technology entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs are the ones upon which great nations were built. Technology, is the only way that this country can be industrialized so we can meet up to economical standards, and the international community.” end of quote.

That's why I decided to write this. He has so much belief, and he deserves support and encouragement.
Nairaland Moderators where are you.
Bloggers & journalists, you have a good topic now.

A 13-year-old Nigerian, Gerald Maduabuchi, a prodigy that develops apps and software, algorithms, neural networks, at his age has about Fourteen whatsapp groups, and Four Telegram channels. At Eleven, he started up a group called “LetsCode,” then he began teaching coding, and computation. The group had 154 participants, that was made up of Nigerians, Indians, Americans, etc. It had professionals, gurus, and people who had been coding for years. The oldest participant was in his middle twenties. When he sent tutorials especially videos, on computation, AI and neural networks, it was a shock to all, seeing a preteen wearing glasses teaching advanced concepts, that many of them struggled with. It seemed absurd. At twelve, he renamed it GeraldCodes, he sent broadcasts, which people forwarded the group link and joined. Soon it was full. He created the second, third, to the eleventh which is halfway full. He created KidzCode, iGirlz code, Boyscode call, for children and teenagers. He started a telegram channel, that had 7,789 subscribers, GeralsCodes, were he posted videos, tips, and tutorials on computer science. Participants would sometimes plead for help or advice, or contact him privately.
Now that‘s a true whizkid. He was already programing with QBASIC, C, and FoxPro at just five to six. At six, he ran his first program, and at eight, he created an recursive algorithm approach for the tower of H'anoi, at nine years after watching the Iron Man 3 Sci-fi, he was inspired into AI. And he built a neural network and a software, that was able to give the build, type model, and give accurate details of a flash drive.
And at ten years old, he created his first windows application. At twelve years he built a chatbot, which worked as an assistant on whatsapp.
Follow this thread, and I will try to get the group invite link.
Tekpost

A 13-year-old Nigerian, Gerald Maduabuchi, a prodigy that develops apps and software, algorithms, neural networks, at his age has about Fourteen whatsapp groups, and Four Telegram channels. At Eleven, he started up a group called “LetsCode,” then he began teaching coding, and computation. The group had 154 participants, that was made up of Nigerians, Indians, Americans, etc. It had professionals, gurus, and people who had been coding for years. The oldest participant was in his middle twenties. When he sent tutorials especially videos, on computation, AI and neural networks, it was a shock to all, seeing a preteen wearing glasses teaching advanced concepts, that many of them struggled with. It seemed absurd. At twelve, he renamed it GeraldCodes, he sent broadcasts, which people forwarded the group link and joined. Soon it was full. He created the second, third, to the eleventh which is halfway full. He created KidzCode, iGirlz code, Boyscode call, for children and teenagers. He started a telegram channel, that had 7,789 subscribers, GeralsCodes, were he posted videos, tips, and tutorials on computer science. Participants would sometimes plead for help or advice, or contact him privately.
Now that‘s a true whizkid. He was already programing with QBASIC, C, and FoxPro at just five to six. At six, he ran his first program, and at eight, he created an recursive algorithm approach for the tower of H'anoi, at nine years after watching the Iron Man 3 Sci-fi, he was inspired into AI. And he built a neural network and a software, that was able to give the build, type model, and give accurate details of a flash drive.
And at ten years old, he created his first windows application. At twelve years he built a chatbot, which worked as an assistant on whatsapp.
Follow this thread, and I will try to get the group invite link.
Tekpost

Programming is the art or skill of manipulating numerous computer codes, into a program that is executable by a computer. People who engage in this activity are known as programmers.
95% (Ninety Five Percent), of all software, apps, and games are written in programming languages.
Programming languages such as QBASIC, C, C#, Objective-C, Swift, C++, Net, Ruby, Scala, Effiel, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, Bootstrap. Etc.
It‘s a very good skill to learn, but it needs a lot of devotion, concentration, and undoubtedly effort too. Programming is used for a lot of things, with it, you can do this aspects

1. App development: develop your own apps or software, launch them and place it in any playstore but it depends. If it’s an Android app, of course it must go on Google playstore. So learn Java and Android Studio. If it’s an iOS, macOS app, it goes on the Apple playstore. So Swift, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch Frameworks, Objective-C, will come in handy! Whilst if it’s a Windows app, it goes on Microsoft's store or Xbox. And C# (sharp) and .Net will come in handy.

2. Website design and cloud computing: They are thousands of websites on the worldwide web, or the internet. You can simply study one by just typing a website, e.g www.udemy.com These web pages are encoded in a special and very popular language you should have heard of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). And with the popular Web Design format, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Others come in handy such as JavaScript, Python, XML, PHP, MySQL, for web development. Mind you, there are two types of web development!

• Front End: Involves the graphics, design, the website background color and layout. It would be a good idea to use bootstrap, or CSS, or even JavaScript to do this.

• Back End: Involves the database, servers, etc. It would be a good idea to try out languages such as Python, PHP, HTML, XML, Apache, SQL, to do this.

Both are very important, and without a back end you can't have an existing website. And without the front, your website will be dull and uninviting.

Ethical hacking or cryptography: this aspect isn't really a bad concept, it depends on the kind of person who will use it for criminal acts. Well, the truth is, hackers are actually paid well for what they do, especially White-Hats, (security personnels). They are three main categories of Hackers.

• Black Hats: These are regarded mostly as the criminals in some places. These are the 419, popularly referred to as “Yahoo boys.” Some hack for their personal gain, whilst some at hired by organizations, or government agencies to break into systems.

• Gray-Hats: They are referred to as in-between and can't be trusted. They perform both duties of the black and white. This kind of people are the most dangerous, because they master both aspects.

• White-Hats: These are the security personnels. They are hired to encrypt or protect various systems from malicious attacks, and from cyber attacks. They protect organizations, government agencies and individual systems.

In Hacking, programming is highly required. But the most core essential language is C++, C. Because almost all systems are encoded in it. A programmer must understand Networks, systems and databases, as well as SQL. It comes in handy when working with an SQL injection attack, HTTP injection. Etc. The most popularly used OS (operating system) by hackers is the KALI LINUX. Whilst others are snoofapp, hackdroid, etc.

These are the main uses of programming, but more advanced concepts are:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning
• IOT
• Machine Learning
• Algorithms
• Evolutionary Computation
• Neural Networks
• Bayesian Networks.etc

But for a Novice, all these are to complex to start off.

Steps For Becoming A Programmer: Equipment, items, and necessary gadgets.

1. Get an idea or inspiration: You can't just go off programming without an idea or inspiration. You need to decide on what you would like to create beneficiary to you or someone else.

2. Get a good workspace: You need a good place to work. It can be anywhere comfortable for you. Either your bedroom, study room or living room.

3. Get the right equipment: As a programmer, it’s necessary to have a good working desktop or laptop. Tekpost recommends such laptops or desktops like Acer, HP, Mac or Dell. It must have a workable RAM of over (4gb) and a ROM of over (300gb) this kind of storage space will help when working with various professional tools.

4. Update and get professional tools: As a programmer, you must have the latest software and programming languages. For example: You should have all Adobe professional tools, text editors, word processors, graphics studios. Etc You have to get programming languages, which you can download online. Make sure you keep your OS updated, for effective computation.

5. Start of with easy programming languages: Don't be ashamed, if you are new to it, try simple languages such as QBASIC, Badge, Visual Studio, HTML. Learning the basics is very important.

6. Practice: Always practice, don't give up, run simple programs before advancing to complex ones.

7. Take online courses: They are lots of tutorials, videos, online schools that give online courses for free and for a price. E.g bootcamp, datacamp, udemy. etc

8. Join programming sites: Get on various sites and communities and meet people that like or ate interested in programming, e.g GitHub, Fiver. Share your projects, ideas, and get ideas and inspirations.

9. Join programming whatsapp groups and telegram channels: They are lots of them. Just go to the internet and type “join programming whatsapp groups,” or “Join programming channels on telegram. ”

10. Get programming Ebooks: This will help you depending on what aspect of programming you prefer. They are hundreds of PDF Ebooks on programming, on Amazon, and book sites, as well as iBook store. You can pay and download, or download free Ebooks, they are many!

11. Make friends: Get friends that appreciate programming, and share your ideas, and ask them for help.

12. Get a tutor: You can have a programming tutor, that will devote his time to reach you programming.

13. Attend Seminars & programming schools: go for seminars related to programming, and programming schools to be more enlightened.

14. Continue to practice and teach others what you know on programming.

A lots of questions have being asked by novices and neophytes to programming. The most asked question:

• What language should I start with?
Tekpost recommends HTML, CSS, XML, QBASIC. Etc.

• Where can I learn it online?
Tekpost recommends bootcamp, datacamp and udemy. YouTube channels can be of good help.

Other questions:

• Is programming hard?
No! In Tekpost's opinion, it depends on how much effort you put in.

• Where can I get domains?
You can purchase domain names from web hosting sites, such as, .com, .org, .uk, .net etc.

• Are domain names expensive?
Not too expensive, depends. You can get domains for one dollar, and web hosting service for as low as 200 Naira a month — 600 Naira a month.

• I can't run a “hello world” program, help!
Follow the language's strict syntax. Save the file format as you are instructed to. E.g helloworld.py or helloworld.pyw
Don't use MS word!!! Make use of Notepad or sublime text editor, which is said to be the best.

Hope this post will help you become an excellent programmer someday. Hope your questions were answered.
Tekpost.

SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) Inc, aimed for Orbit in it's first flight since August 5th.
The high tempo company's largest break between launches this year, Elon Musk's rocket maker will use new "Block 5" Falcon 9 rocket to launch Telstar 18 Vantage. A communication satellite built by SSL, a United States satellite maker, operated by the Canadian telecommunication firm: [i][/i]Telesat.
It will orbit high above Asia and Oceania, providing broadband connections to a variety of Customers.

The sixteenth launch, will premier at the Cape Canaveral: 11:28PM ET (3:28UTC)
Otherwise until September 10/ 11:28pmET


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