Well I'm just curious as to how people learnt to code in C# C++ VB .NET ect.

I'm a PHP, HTML, CSS coder, self taught from building things from scratch and just pushing my skills everytime I make a project.

I've dabbled in learning C# and C++, even tryed my hand at .NET, but I'm just not able to pick it up, or do what I want. I don't want to be making little command line scripts, to start off with, I just want to jump right in to it.

So again just to repeat my question, how did everyone learn to code in whatever they picked up, and how ling did it take you?

Hello Faracus,

I started coding back then with Visual Basic 6. Just like you mentioned, I didn't like the idea of console programs and directly went for a GUI-based program. If I remember correctly, I started with simple things, when button is pressed, display textbox. Then I did things almost every coder has done at least once, e.g. calculators. The best motivation is, to think of a small tool, that can be helpful for you and then try to create it. It's all about motivation. I'd say I'm coding for like 4-5 years, the years before were just playing around with batch or something like that and I master assembler, C++, C#, VB.NET, Objective-C and have experience in many other languages.

LMS

Yes, I did meddle with VB6 for a while and I did enjoy it, but I was having problem finding a good source for codes, and what they do, such as for web design I used http://www.w3schools.com and got the majority of my knowledge from there, and then when I started to grasp the basics I moved on to more complex coding, such as my MDC style poilce computer for the CVES clan.

Well, VB 6 is outdated now, I started with it because it was the latest release back then. It's not about code sources, simply think about a project, then think about how you could realize it and google the commands for the language.

I am still learning C++ and C#. Having a hard time with it. Just made my own little program for G17 Media, more about that later. ^^

And yeah, google helps a lot haha.

I think my PHP knowledge helped my learn C? a bit. I did try VB a few months before C? but hated it.

And by the way, avoid W3Schools like the plague. See http://w3fools.com/ for info.

VB is not that hard. Like LMS said, if you google the codes you need, its not that hard. ;p

I did not say it was hard, it is however a horrible syntax and C? is more familiar and intuitive to me.