Studying Code

A lot of people here have been asking about learning to program. When I was a kid, I got my first computer that only ran BASIC. My parents couldn't really afford software and so I got a book called Basic Computer Games. It was full of small scripts you typed in to the computer that made little games (by the way the books are online if you look them up in Google). In studying those and seeing how the output related to what was coded, I learned a great deal about structure and where things went. Nowadays the net is full of code snippets and small scripts that can work the same way. Figure out what the code does by pretending you are the computer and then enter the code and see if the computer matches your interpretation. This may sound a bit dorky, but it works. By the time they were teaching computers in college, I already knew more about programming from this method than they were teaching.

Just a word of advice from a long time programmer...