Help while I get the right tools

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so yesterday i asked a question about my computer and how to install visual basic,but since i found out my computer is to old to do that. i want to know while i get the right pc and tools so i can start really learning programing. how else can i start learning and preparing my self for the upcoming tasks. what im asking is whats the best way to start learning programing. how should i start. how did u guys start. remember i will not have a pc in front of me for the next couple of days.
i have tons of books on programing

What I have tried:

im trying the best i can to learn how to program. im reading books but i mostly dont understand them.

Posted 9-Jan-17 10:42am

realhastalamuerte

Updated 10-Jan-17 1:24am

Pete O'Hanlon

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[no name] 9-Jan-17 17:14pm

If you can't understand the books that you read, the absolute best thing you can do is take a class at your local college or university.

realhastalamuerte 9-Jan-17 17:31pm

sounds like a great idea let me just go to my jar of unlimited funds. that wont be possible. cant afford it. cant get grants either

[no name] 9-Jan-17 17:48pm

If you do not like the answers you get to your off topic questions, then don't ask. The ONLY way you can learn is by studying, research and PRACTICE. Since you say you can't understand the studying, and you can't practice, then what exactly would you have us tell you?

realhastalamuerte 9-Jan-17 18:07pm

i didnt mean to come of as a ass

[no name] 9-Jan-17 20:16pm

Sure you did. You are looking for a magic bullet and there isn't any such thing. If you cannot understand the simple explanation MEANT FOR BEGINNERS in your books, what good do you thing tutorials would do you? You are going to learn things out of order and you are going to get confused frustrated and angry. And then you are going to come back here over and over and over expecting that we can teach you programming one question at a time. And you will just get more confused, more frustrated and more angry.

realhastalamuerte 10-Jan-17 0:33am

thanks bro

realhastalamuerte 10-Jan-17 0:38am

nah i really didnt to mean to be an ass. just the way i type it may seem that way. i apalogize if it came out that way. i just needed some to point me in the right direction

ZurdoDev 10-Jan-17 7:27am

I don't think the OP meant anything by it and I find it wrong for you to insist the OP did even after they said they didn't.

I imagine sarcasm is harder to pick up on when English is not the first language. I could tell it was just sarcastic.

realhastalamuerte 10-Jan-17 19:21pm

thank you my friend

realhastalamuerte 9-Jan-17 18:07pm

how to begin? how did u begin. where can i get tutorials besides. youtube. i want some one to help me with the begining of it

Dave Kreskowiak 9-Jan-17 22:41pm

Nobody helped me out except the books I picked up and read. I was learning assembly languages for machines that I could never put my hands on in the late 70's and early 80's, when I was a kid. That was teaching me how processors work, how instruction sets work, how logic and math worked in a CPU, ... all on paper and pencil. That made it easier to learn more stuff later when I finally got my hands on my own machines.

Having discounted the "practice" of anything on your hardware or understanding tutorials on YouTube (a bad way to learn programming by the way) the ONLY remaining option you have is reading and doing exercises on paper.

If you discount that, then the only thing you have left is someone walking up to you and smashing you in the head with a magic wand on knowledge. Good luck with that.

realhastalamuerte 10-Jan-17 0:34am

thanks bro

Mohibur Rashid 10-Jan-17 2:35am

4 years of education, many years of work.

The beginning is with a book, you can concentrate on learning specific language or you can concentrate learning programming. If the issue is specific language right tools are required. you need specific language and you don't have proper machine. How about http://rextester.com/l/vb

realhastalamuerte 10-Jan-17 19:30pm

i got a hold of one of my old roomates whos a game programer he works for one of the big wig companys i rather not mention. and he told me bout python. he help me install it into my computer. thought me hoe to do the hello world thing. though me about integer, baloons,strings and floats and since yesterday night ive been doing the beginner programs. so ive been practicing all day.
just wished somebody in this forum would of told me about it since its "suppose" to be the best programing forum on the net. thats the reason i joined. anyways thanks for all your input. i will let you guys know on how my progress is doing thanks guys

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-10T01:24:00

I would suggest picking a language first and then getting a book on it. For example, C#. But also decide if you want to do Windows Applications or Web Pages. And search on Amazon.com for beginner books. Then go through the examples. Once you have a basic understanding then challenge yourself with a simple project. Perhaps a Windows Forms app that allows someone to type in data and you save it into a file, or something simple enough that you can accomplish.

Visual Studio can be downloaded for free and there are free versions of Sql so you can use a database to store data. See Free Developer Software & Services | Visual Studio[^]

And then do other projects that interest you or get a job doing code. Good luck.