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cookie  ·  3190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How did you learn programming?

I learned Visual Basic when I was a kid. I did write some small application. The problem was I did not understand how the code could tell the computer to do something. It was so frustrated and I quitted coding after that. I didn't understand the abstraction of computer layer machine code, transistor... After that I began to learn electronics, and I realized the brain of the computer was all about logic gate. We human used high level programming languages to make it easier for us to tell the computer what to do. From my experience before learning to code you need to understand the fundamentals of computer. It makes your life easier. And by the way learn by coding, do some real projects. You become better and better every day.