Would like to learn a bit of programming

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FeFiDoh

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Did a course with the Open University and in it I did some stuff in scratch, pretty basic (kids use it!) but it was kind of enjoyable to get working programs.

Anyone recommend the next step I could take, try and take it a bit further. I was looking at maybe doing a Java course with the OU some time next year so maybe that? Get a head start.
 
Turns out the Open University is part of Microsoft DreamSpark and they have a ton of free software on there, some for developers. Wonder if any of that would be useful?
There are some visual C++ C# and others on there.

SoundsGood, that is one of the courses I am looking at, Object-oriented Java programming (M250) and Software development with Java (M256) afterwards.
I did enjoy parts of the coding on this TU100 but found some of it really frustrating also, it is kind of a new way of working and thinking for me and I was completely new to it so I hope it's not so bad with some practice?
 
Win 8 is on there, I just downloaded it myself will check it out later.

Also enjoy Woden, when do you start? I have just about finished my EMA so have to send that in by the 20th. Glad to see the back of it ;)
 
It wasn't to bad. A lot of the course is really just study skills so be prepared for lots of reading, lots of writing and probably stuff you don't really want to be doing as much as others. Some of the Sense stuff is ok and if you have done programming before it shouldn't take you long, some of the guys doing it when I did seemed to grasp it very quickly due to previous experience.

Thanks Gzero grabbed VS now so will take a gander at that as well.
 
Yes UncleRuckus I am on the FB group.
How did you find the course overall? Some of it was good (I enjoyed the gaming section and the history) but other bits were just so bad. I actually didn't bother with the argument mapping or the last 2 weeks of reading material and just went to the EMA.
What course you doing next? I am going to MU123 on October 6th.

I downloaded visual basic last night so will have a gander over that in the next few days, any recommendations on places to get started? Been trying to think of a project to start with as Mailman86 says just not come up with anything yet.
 
I have been playing around with visual basic and some c# for last few days and have worked my way through

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd492171.aspx

I can understand the code when I read it and get the ideas behind it roughly just not confident in being able to write much of it myself if any really. I guess this just comes with more practice?
Anyone able to recommend any more tutorials I can work through or maybe some books I can take a look at.
 
Well I have come up with a little project to start on which I think I can achieve.
Going to make a small program that creates a buy config for CS:GO. A user can enter their preferred button choice for each weapon, press generate and it will bind the keys to the correct weapons for them. Don't think it needs anything to complex and I already have a buy config with the correct menu entries in it so only thing I need to add is the key + blahblahblah.
 
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