5 thing you need to know before Launching your Programming Career

Programming languages are your tools for doing interesting things. Coding is the only form of art where you create interactive art. Movies, poetry, poems and music flow in one direction, Pictures, diagrams and sculptures are all static. But codes flow in both ways.

If you are a super programmer in the world of technology you may not get so much respect, but using codes as a your secret weapon in many proffessions such as biology, medicine, government, physics, history and math can do amazing things to advance these disciplines.

About which of the numerous programming languages to learn, there are no stupid or better languages, there are just different languages that serve and work best for different purposes. Whats important is avoiding falling into the religion of a language but remaining open to different languages aimed at imporving lives in everyway possible. Once you learn one language, two languages and three, you find that there are a lot of similarties and sometims, it might take an expert just over a week or two to gain mastery over a new language given his background in a few.

I recommend starting out with Python, Rubby and then Javascript and PHP. Others like Java or C++ or C# are a bit more advanced and can also be learned afterwards.

The best approach to learning these languages is a DO IT YOURSELF or Practise based approach. Programming is much like math. You don’t learn math by simply reading or watching another person. You gain mastery by practice and more practice. So adopt a practice/instruction based approach to programming.

Once again, learn this new skill with the intention of doing great and interesting things, making a difference and moving humanity forward, programming languages are simply your tool for doing interesting things.

Also beware of those who are jealous because you can do what they can never do, who call you names such as NERD, GIG, etc.. my advice: They can go to H*ll. Being different is not a crime, and people who tell you it is are just jealous. You can code. They cannot. That is pretty damn cool.