How i learned programming by myself?

If you are someone who is curious about computers and wanted to learn programming then follow my personal tips on how I learned programming all by myself.

Get inspiration

When I started my very first project, before that I had no skills of programming but still I choose a complex project to work on.

I was working on an e-commerce website. It was in my imagination from very first day what I want to create.

If you have no clue of what project you should start then take inspiration from other websites and whichever website looks interesting to you start working on making a clone of it.

For example if you think facebook is a very cool site then you should start working on making a clone of facebook or making a social media site.

Use your search skills

Now search on google "how to create own social media website like facebook?". You will get many articles on this.

Now read articles and try to understand the steps, this could be a hard part for any beginner but you will have to do it. When you will scan many articles you will automatically be able to understand some basic steps to start creating a social media website.

Like first you will have to a setup programming language such as php.

For HTML, css and javascript you don't need to install anything, just start coding in any editor.

Then you will have to create a database in MySQL.

Then start programming by making a simple register page, then login page, home page and so on.

Don't get confused by choosing a programming language.

You are a beginner, so you don't have to get confused about choosing the best programming language for you because with experience you will understand which language is better for you. So, for now just start with any one backend language like Java or php and frontend languages like HTML, css.

When I first started programming, my language combination was php, HTML, css and some javascript, which I learned while working on that project.

Do practical more than theory

Don't waste you time by just reading theories from any book or article use them a way to find the solution of your errors in your code but don't get stucked with them.

Because if you are have started writing codes and just reading many books and theories on programming then it will just increase your confusion and you will think the programming is hard. Always remember programming is about finding the solution to a problem not just reading theories without any goal of using it.

Use a good editor to writing code.

Avoid using notepad for programming instead use some good editors such as vs code or other which comes for programming because these editors comes with many functions which will help you while programming they will help you while debugging your errors and make it easy to move from one file to other file and many more.

Should I buy online courses to learn programming?

It is a good question and the answer is different for everyone if you are someone who is struggling to learn programming by self then you should definitely go for a good online course don't force yourself to learn only by self it is not bad to take help from any medium.