A guide to getting started with programming for new learners

When it comes to programming, you may be filled with all kinds of questions, don't worry, W3Cschool has sorted out nine questions that programming beginners like to ask best, here for you to answer one by one, without the confusion in your heart.

Is there any prospect of learning programming?

To judge a career prospect, we should mainly consider its service object, whether it will slowly die out. To give two examples:

If there were no more crimes in the world, the profession of the police would slowly disappear, because people no longer needed it;

If the mobile phone disappeared from this world, the mobile phone film of course there is no prospect;

Programming is based on the Internet as a carrier, is for the Internet service, as long as the Internet exists, there will be programs, programmers need to create it, unless one day the Internet disappeared. I n China, there is a gap of one million programmers each year, which is directly related to the booming Internet. So, how can there be no prospect of learning programming?

Then again, if programming has no promise, don't you learn? S hould I give up? As long as there are no obvious signs of extinction, you should not be "there is no prospect" such a problem, to undermine your confidence in programming.

Are you late to learn programming now?

Once, a student sent a consultation email to W3Cschool, he told us that now 15 years old in junior high school, want to learn programming knowledge through the w3cschool platform, it will not be too late. A fter communication, we found that the little boy came up with the idea of learning programming after watching a lot of celebrity stories. And these celebrities, almost all at a very young age, are exposed to programming.

Visible, learn programming is not too late, is to have a reference. C ompared to Kaifu Li, who started programming at the age of 10, it is clearly late at the age of 15. But Wang Jiangmin, the father of Chinese antivirus software who only started programming at the age of 38, looks so young.

We like the saying: "Plant a tree, the best time is yesterday, followed by now."

We think that most people should want to get a programming-related job and be afraid of getting too old to get a job. T here is no denying that the older you get, the more obstacles you get, and the key is whether you have a heart that dares to challenge. A ccording to the general requirements of enterprise employees, the level of technology, is whether to hire talent the first standard. Age, education and other factors will only be taken into account if the level of both sides is similar when competing for employment.

What programming language is good?

Choose a programming language, don't worry too much, don't consider career development, income and other factors. These factors are directly related to your skill level and have nothing to do with anything else.

If you like to design some beautiful pages, choose the front end, you need to learn html, css, JavaScript and other knowledge;

Want to develop games, do some fun programs, C is the ideal choice;

Develop Android applications, do websites, Java is good;

Data mining, artificial intelligence, websites, Python is very good at;

Develop the website, PHP is no problem;

Want to do some robots, often deal with hardware, choose C language;

W3Cschool recommends trying to choose according to your hobbies.

Talent is not high, can you learn programming?

Many participants often ask W3Cschool this question, but in our opinion, it's not a problem. Because for the vast majority of people's efforts, are not up to the point of talent.

Education is too low, not the relevant major graduates how to do?

Education is too low, not related professional, you may not be a lawyer, can not be a doctor, but become a qualified programmer, no problem at all. Enterprises in the recruitment of talent, the reason why there will be academic requirements, professional requirements, in order to save the cost of recruitment, does not represent a low academic qualifications, not related professional, there is no enterprise to want.

For the vast majority of enterprises, whether to decide whether to hire a programmer, the first consideration is the technical level, followed by work experience, and then whether it is in line with the company's values, people and work, and finally consider academic qualifications, whether it is related to the professional and other factors.

Do you need good English and math skills to learn programming?

This is a layman's misunderstanding of the programmer that the programmer's English and math must be very good. I n fact, in the daily work, neither English grammar, nor need to recite too many words, daily can use the words, so few. As for math, it's less used, and some jobs don't even use math at all.

In the W3Cschool platform to learn a lot of students, including working in BAT and other first-line Internet companies, their English and math levels are not high, or work needs, slowly improve the level of both.

Of course, English and math are good, to learn programming is a certain help. To be a technical bull, you really need to learn more about English and math.

The best way is that we can learn programming first, get a job as a programmer, and then learn English and math as a goal of self-improvement.

What is the learning path like if you want to be a programmer?

You don't have to worry about that at all. W3Cschool organizes the learning paths of the major categories of programmers, and all you need to do is follow one of the learning paths we provide, keep working hard, stick to it, and finish it.

Can I get a job after I finish school?

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Whether you can find a job is not who decides, but depends on your learning results, if you meet the standards of the employer, natural water into the canal. So, please don't worry, insist, work hard, do these two points, looking for a job is not difficult.

You may have one or the other worry, such as talent is not high, the foundation is not good, and so on, afraid that even if the programming knowledge learns a lot, but also meet the standard of the employer, that is, no one hires you. O r that sentence, the level of technology determines everything. If you have this doubt, you can look at the other questions and answers in this article, and the doubts will be solved.

Is it good to read, or is it an online course, or a training course?

Generally speaking, reading is more suitable for students with a certain foundation. N etwork courses because of the rich and diverse forms, the audience is also many, there is a certain basis, zero basis, want to change courses, want to learn by themselves, anyone can choose the online course. And newspaper training courses, suitable for students who want to learn in the short term, and participate in the work.

In terms of price, books and online courses are cheaper, while training courses usually cost $10,000 or 20,000 and need to be cautious. If you are interested in the work of programmers, want to learn through the way of class, you may want to learn through the W3Cschool platform for a while, see if you are really interested, and then report to the training course to learn more secure, to avoid the high cost of learning, but half-way through, of course, this is only a suggestion.