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Programming Tips for New Programmers

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Are you new to Programming? Are you confused about

❍ How to start?
❍ Where to start?
❍ What to start?

I will try to make it easy for you as much possible through this 🧵

Let's ask few self questions related to your programming career decision

❍ What were you doing before?
❍ Why did you decide to start?
❍ Did someone influence you?
❍ How did you start?
❍ At what age you started?

Further questions,

❍ Are you a Self Taught?
❍ Are you learning it from a mentor or, guide?
❍ Are you learning it from an Institute or, University or, Bootcamp?

Finally these,

As now you have already decided to be a programmer,

❍ Do you have any goal?
❍ What technology to choose?
❍ What career path to choose?

In order to be a successful programmer, you should answer these yourselves.

💎 What is Programming?

You will find 1000s of definitions. But for me,

programming is a way to model real life problems in the form of machine understandable instructions

With experience you will understand that

✔ 60% is about understanding the problem
✔ 30% is about modelling the problem
✔ 10% is actual programming

To be a successful programmer, you should master all 3 things not just one.

➊ Step to Success: Understand the Problem

➀ Read the problem

➁ Identify
⇥ Inputs
⇥ Expected outputs

➂ Re-read the problem until ➁

➃ Take a paper
⇥ Put Inputs at one side
⇥ Outputs at another side
⇥ Draw lines between them to show the relations

➋ Step to Success: Model the Problem

In order to do it correctly, you should have good skill in
⇥ elementary mathematics
⇥ logical analysis

Modelling is nothing but translating a human readable language to a programming language.

Try to look for following things in the problem. Map that to programming instructions.

➀ Arithmetic Operations
➁ Comparisons
➂ Assignments
➃ Conditions or, Logical Operations
➄ Branching
➅ Repeating
➆ Dividing into sub-problems
➇ Synchronous/Asynchronous

➌ Step to Success: Write the Program

Follow this 🧵 for a thorough understanding

https://twitter.com/swapnakpanda/status/1449623043282640897?s=20

If you are still unclear, I am conducting a Twitter Space on this topic today evening. Let's discuss there.

🚏 Today's Space

📅 20-Feb-2022 (Today)
⏰ 07.30PM IST (02.00PM GMT)

⬘ Are you new to Programming? Are you confused about

❍ How to start?
❍ Where to start?
❍ What to start?

Join me in this space. Share in your group.
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