Scratch

to start off i find a site with lots of tutorials just to get to know the syntax and stuff

then i just look up specific things when i need to know them

I don't really tend to "learn" programming languages... I tend to find some simple hello world code online and start messing around with it and using eclipse to autocomplete everything and see what stuff does, which is same way I learnt scratch    then if I want to do something I look it up and 95% of the time find the answer on stackoverflow. 

Last edited by TRocket (2012-11-27 15:40:44)

I generally use Codecademy.

TheSupremeOverLord wrote:

my dad is extermely tech-savy, so lots are his

Lucky! My dad uses Python; I should ask him about it.

Scratch!    Well besides that, I earn from like northmeister said, trial and error. I'm learning HTML and Java currently. Not from school, though because we learn about stupid stuff like safe passwords, how to use microsoft word, and stupid stuff like that. I'm in 7th grade and we are just learning Scratch this year(just learning about costumes and sprite movement -_-)! I've been on Scratch for 4 years now...

I'm not a big programmer (I don't even make Scratch projects much anymore, but that's just laziness.  ), so I rarely use resources for it. But I have watched a few Youtube tutorials (And they were pretty helpful.) or use this when I feel like making something.
I've never published something completely, half the time I just experiment.

I programed java for 2 years now (aged 13), ive made the xplocraft, and zimbee mod for minecraft and they were pretty famous

Mokat wrote:

don't use w3schools

First of all, that didn't contribute much to the thread.
Second of all, include a source for saying a site is bad.
How about, all those people who say w3schools is bad, go make a website that has the same kind of references and coverage w3schools has. All I've seen from people who say w3schools is bad, is showing a site that has its faults, but they never give another way to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, that is as easy as w3schools is.
Codeacademy is good, but it's just for programming languages, and not markup languages. And it also doesn't allow you to see a specific thing (such as canvas) and have an entire reference on it.
I'm only going to start believing you guys if you give an adequate counter site.
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I use a mix of codeacademy, w3schools, and whatever I can find on google.

http://php.net/

TorbyFork234 wrote:

shpeters wrote:

TorbyFork234 wrote:

First of all, that didn't contribute much to the thread.
Second of all, include a source for saying a site is bad.
How about, all those people who say w3schools is bad, go make a website that has the same kind of references and coverage w3schools has. All I've seen from people who say w3schools is bad, is showing a site that has its faults, but they never give another way to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, that is as easy as w3schools is.
Codeacademy is good, but it's just for programming languages, and not markup languages. And it also doesn't allow you to see a specific thing (such as canvas) and have an entire reference on it.
I'm only going to start believing you guys if you give an adequate counter site.
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I use a mix of codeacademy, w3schools, and whatever I can find on google.

Codecademy teaches markup too.

*facepalm*

Well, it still doesn't have the references, the ease of use, the directories, the search, etc... that w3schools has.
Yes, some of their techniques are old, but at least they have the techniques to accomplish what you need to out there, in a very easy to use format.

I think the method Codecadamy uses for teaching is much better. Codecademy has some short instructions that tell you what to do and then it requires you to do it. It finds errors and what tells you what you did wrong. W3schools just shows you what is produced without telling you about your errors and what they are. Plus it doesn't even require you to demonstrate your knowledge and write it down so it sticks in your head, it simply requires you to click on the next link.

shpeters wrote:

TorbyFork234 wrote:

shpeters wrote:

Codecademy teaches markup too.

*facepalm*

Well, it still doesn't have the references, the ease of use, the directories, the search, etc... that w3schools has.
Yes, some of their techniques are old, but at least they have the techniques to accomplish what you need to out there, in a very easy to use format.

I think the method Codecadamy uses for teaching is much better. Codecademy has some short instructions that tell you what to do and then it requires you to do it. It finds errors and what tells you what you did wrong. W3schools just shows you what is produced without telling you about your errors and what they are. Plus it doesn't even require you to demonstrate your knowledge and write it down so it sticks in your head, it simply requires you to click on the next link.

That's why I just use w3schools as a reference, never for learning concepts.

@transparent: I have

@veggieman001 & shpeters: Same here. I'm just saying that you say w3schools is bad, when you yourselves use it.
I first learned javascript, HTML, and CSS from w3schools, and the differences between the classes in codeacademy and w3schools in javascript are very slim.
The only ones I can see so far is declaring functions as a variable (versus putting 'function myFunction()' according to w3schools).