Programmers - How'd you learn?

[woj]

50 programmers....

[Spider Ninja]

The greatest programming languages OF ALL TIME

1. C (stood the test of time, still the go-to language for mission critical firmware and software)
2. C++ (desktop application language of choice)
3. php/perl (the web is built on these)
4. Java (had a good run but I think its coming to an end)
5. C# (new kid on the block that makes programming way too easy... what java should have been... [go mono!])
6. Assembly (sometimes you need really fine control)
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743. Visual Basic (great for weekend warriors)

Got to toss in UNIX as a beautiful platform

[Spider Ninja]

50 programmers....

damn Woj, you're fast

[Odie]

I went to school and gota degreee in programming and then taught myself everything else...I still suck at it tho lol...

[Baker Rd]

Started as a hobby making servers, mass mailers, punters, scrollers, crackers, spammers, etc... for AOL. Learned visual basic before HTML.

[psili]

The greatest programming languages OF ALL TIME

4. Java (had a good run but I think its coming to an end)

Nah man. I just started to teach myself Java. Don't say that ^^^

# Java today is driving more than $100 billion of business annually.
# Java mobile game market is estimated to be around $3 billion.
# Seven out of 10 wireless applications currently under constructions will use Java technology runtime environment.
# On the enterprise side, $2.2 billion in Java application server and $110 billion in related IT spendings are happening, .
# Today, globally over 4.5 million software developers work on Java.
# Along with that, 100 carrier deployments and 579 million phones are on this platform.

[High Plains Drifter]

Nah man. I just started to teach myself Java. Don't say that ^^^

Hopefully you're right. But Java development took a huge hit when Bill Joy left Sun and it really hasn't recovered. Combine that with never really getting their resource usage and portability under control, and I think those statistics are based more on momentum then anything else.

[koreanbbque]

a blend of

1) comp sci classes from college, programming in C/C++.
2) self taught everything for web programming in perl
( easy to learn perl when you have C/C++ base to go off )


never did take a java class,but after my last year in college, all courses moved from C++ to java. *shrug*

[drjones]

Also, I've already pimped this site once on GFY but its helpful and I use it all the time: check out http://safari.oreilly.com/

If you can afford to shell out 20 bux a month its so fucking worth it