DeadRabbit
Emutalk Janitor
Hi guys,
I've seen a few posts in the forum from people thinking about learning to program.
Up until wednesday I'd never written any kind of code in my life.
However, I was sent on a course to learn something called PSL script (a scripting languge for a piece of software called Patrol), and even though this IS NOT the same as C++, another guy who was on the course with me (who can program in several languages) explained that once I'd learnt to write PSL script then learning C++ and other languages would be a fairly simple task.
My point though is this, even though I had never written any kind of script or code or whatever , the fundemental part of lerning to write a program was actually in working out the logic of "HOW" to make it do what you wanted it to. The actual functions of the language can be read out of a reference book.
Now obviously I'm not implying that within days weeks or months that you will be able to write an emulator or anything as complex as that, but trust me, I'm not a particularly clever person, but once the basics of how to structure a program, call functions etc, was out of the way, it simply boiled down to being able to use logic.
What I'm saying is, don't wait around and put it off for years as I have done,
Just go for it, you'll be surprised at what you can achieve in a relatively short amount of time.
(A long post I know, sorry about that)
I've seen a few posts in the forum from people thinking about learning to program.
Up until wednesday I'd never written any kind of code in my life.
However, I was sent on a course to learn something called PSL script (a scripting languge for a piece of software called Patrol), and even though this IS NOT the same as C++, another guy who was on the course with me (who can program in several languages) explained that once I'd learnt to write PSL script then learning C++ and other languages would be a fairly simple task.
My point though is this, even though I had never written any kind of script or code or whatever , the fundemental part of lerning to write a program was actually in working out the logic of "HOW" to make it do what you wanted it to. The actual functions of the language can be read out of a reference book.
Now obviously I'm not implying that within days weeks or months that you will be able to write an emulator or anything as complex as that, but trust me, I'm not a particularly clever person, but once the basics of how to structure a program, call functions etc, was out of the way, it simply boiled down to being able to use logic.
What I'm saying is, don't wait around and put it off for years as I have done,
Just go for it, you'll be surprised at what you can achieve in a relatively short amount of time.
(A long post I know, sorry about that)