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CoderBryGuy 5-Oct-20 20:01pm View

Advices:
- Start with an easy/safe language: VB, Java, C#, not C or C++. I do not recommend to start with Python either because of the usage of indentation.
- Read documentation / Follow tutorials (a lot of them)

Thank you for the advice, but I'm really past all that beginner stuff. I know Java, and a good bit of Python as of right now.

I used to know C++ really well in 2013. I read two text books on c++, including the one written by Stroustrup. But then I couldn't figure out the compiler for the graphics section. I also tried to add more math the graphics that just complicated the problem and had to give up 2/3s through the Stroustrup text book. Then I took a course on PHP.But again, look at word press under the hood, and nothing makes sense, just because I learned to build a simple website with a PHP/mySQL back end. I forgot that language too since then. I also learned JS and forgot that. I took a course in java/android with also short sections on web design, and ios/swift. I was going through depression and didn't do anything with after the course.

I got frustrated and stopped to get the CCNA, and never got a job in that either.

But these books like Learn Java don't really tell you how to make a project. That's nice I understand how inheritance works, and polymorphism, collections, generics. That doesn't tell me the first thing about how to start building an email client. And general java concepts are not going to get my an interview either. The first c++ book which I finished all the chapters, ended on something like inheritance, and ended saying you know everything you need to go out into the world of programming now.

I have since taken a tutorial on building an email client in javafx and javax.mail. And that's where I am at. Just doing as many project tutorials as possible right now. Most Java gaming, but also some Python, and I want to do one on C++ and unity, but I'm not sure if just building projects in tons of different languages is helpful. Maybe I should just stay focused on a specific area of Java like Android? Or maybe I should just learn as many libraries as possible in a single language? I really don't know. But I've spent 7 years on this, and am really not sure.