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How to Start Your Programming Journey

Aghamdii
5 min readOct 24, 2020

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Introduction

Starting to learn programming is an overwhelming task, due to the numerous amount of languages and technologies nowadays. So, how to start learning to program? I consider this to be the one million dollar question!

I always wanted to learn how to program from the internet years ago. But I failed in all my approaches. I thought that maybe I am not expected to be a programmer. Later on, I attended a computer science school and studied programming there. Surprisingly, I found programming to be so easy and exciting if you followed the right path.

What does programming mean?

The meaning of programming can be vague for many people and it may confuse others. First, we need to know what does programming means? It is simply to give instructions to the computer to do a certain task, and we use a programming language so the computer can understand what do we want exactly.

“Java” is an example of a programming language

A computer can solve any problem, you just have to know how to give it the right instructions. It can be a simple calculator program, or it can be a mobile application that solves your problem. For instance, before…

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Aghamdii
Aghamdii

Written by Aghamdii

Passionate solo developer who loves teaching

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