Have you picked your options in school yet? If not pick computing and you get taught programming and coding and then try your best in it try get your best grades and hope for the best!


If you've already done all that buy a program like a 'pi' and look on YouTube how to attache and what ever and just start getting really good/familiar with it, and then just try get a job around it (if you have good enough grades)

codeacacademy.com

I learned by taking a class at my school but that website is free and also very helpful

I would recommend starting with Java as it is fairly simple

Worn wrote codeacacademy.com

I learned by taking a class at my school but that website is free and also very helpful

I would recommend starting with Java as it is fairly simple

I agree with worn, it's a great site for beginning programmers. HTML & CSS is a good course to learn for webpages.

I looked at the website ,

It smells really good so far !

Hopefully it will help me in the future

Definitely use CodeAcademy,

If you start using code academy now, your first year of college will be easy when it comes to your programming classes. Most colleges will only teach you basic java fundamentals and then its your job to learn other languages. For example, at LSU you learn Java Fundamentals and then you begin to specialize in what you want to do. However you will have to learn other languages on your own time. Also look into something known as "competitive coding", its alot more hands on and deals alot more with actual programming than your programming classes will. Most programming classes, especially intro classes are highly theoretical and teach mainly concepts.

Also hint of advice, try not to develop any habits when you first start out, especially since most professors will want you to "code" in a specific manner. Mine got pissed off because I loved to add lots of comments to my work to explain what it does. Also if you learn HTML & CSS and a professor ask if you know any have any programming experience, just say NO. I have found that alot of professors don't take people who primarily know HTML & CSS serious. But that may very by school.

Also if a school your interested in doesn't have Software Engineering as a specific major just sign up for Computer Science, in a sense its essentially the same thing. (I ran into this issue when I was looking into UW-Madison and LSU) But yea, Also make sure you have strong math background as you will more than likely have to take calculus (I had to take a semester off so I could learn trig lol). But yea, Good Luck.

BTW, Im a Computer Science Major with a Specialization in Software Engineering, and a currently minoring in Artificial Intelligence (Considering changing to Digital Media minor to help get a summer job at the EA Quality Assurance place here)

TehHamburger wrote Definitely use CodeAcademy,
Also if you learn HTML & CSS and a professor ask if you know any programming languages, just say NO. I have found that alot of professors don't take people who primarily know HTML & CSS serious.

I have found that every qualified professor of computing science don't take people who think markup and stylesheet languages are programming languages seriously.

ObscureCoder wrote

TehHamburger wrote Definitely use CodeAcademy,
Also if you learn HTML & CSS and a professor ask if you know any programming languages, just say NO. I have found that alot of professors don't take people who primarily know HTML & CSS serious.

I have found that every qualified professor of computing science don't take people who think markup and stylesheet languages are programming languages seriously.

I never said they were lol, But I did word that really badly. The reason I said that is because when a professor one of my classes if we had any programming experience one raised there hand and said HTML & CSS and he just started laughing.

I do software engineering at college and what helped my was not learning it in school but making a hobby of it.

Learn languages such as Visual Basic, HTML, CSS and "easy" languages till you get to grips of how a programming language all constructs together and then move on to the more "advanced" such as Java, C++ and so on and so fourth.

Don't just watch YouTube videos, invest in buying books. Books help out so much, they give you everything you need to know if you get stuck you can find what you need.

Hope this helped you.