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[help] Learning to code (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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I’ve been wanting to learn how to code for a while so I figure now is as good a time as any to start. I downloaded VS code on my laptop for python but I don’t really know end product I should try to code and I also am just bad and barely know what I’m doing. Does anyone here have any advice on what to code and how best to learn?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Started with C++, definitely wasn’t easy. I ended up giving up

I made it about as far as std::cout << "Hello World!"; and couldn't figure out wtf cout was or progress from there.

Eventually, nearly a year later, I started over with a simpler language (Basic) and maybe five after that I realised my IDE just wasn't setup right - so cout literally did nothing at all.