⎆ 𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 ⎆

 When you start from nothing, programming can be daunting at first. There are many fields and applications where talent is needed, there is no race.

It helps to have a goal in mind, something you'd like to build or achieve. This can help you focus on the tools that might fit you best.

Having access to working examples can be a great way to wrap your head around complex ideas, that way you can play with the code and watch the effect it has.

Together with reading the documentation of your tools and participating in programming communities you can quickly grow in your understanding of programming and computers.

Utilize this subdread. Ask questions and contribute knowledge, for knowledge is power.

⎋ 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑? ⎋

An age old question with just a single answer:

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘.

The more clear of a goal you have, the better choice you can make. Languages with higher learning curves could have an advantage on the market. So could specialized language. Choose wisely.

Having a complete list of fields and applications and their respective recommended languages, is an an impossible task to gather and maintain. Instead we will try to maintain list of resources to help you in your choice of weapons.

    ⚠️https://slashdot.org/software/programming-languages/ (via archive.org)⚠️

    ⚠️/https://slashdot.org/software/scripting-languages/ (via archive.org)⚠️

    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-programming-languages/

    https://www.mycvcreator.com/blog/the-5-most-in-demand-programming-languages-for-2025

🛈 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝙸 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎? 🛈

Again no clear yes or no answer on this question. It mostly depends on your ability for self-learning. Are you the kind of person that can use some help with structure and discipline, than perhaps a course is not a bad idea.

There are too many courses to choose from though. The choice of course is also very dependent on what exactly you want to achieve or create. Again all we can do is a small maintainable list of resources to get you started with your choice:

    https://hackr.io/blog/top-programming-courses

    ⚠️https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2025/02/18/free-courses-to-learn-skills-that-pay-100k/ (via archive.org)⚠️

    https://www.codecademy.com/

    ⚠️/d/hacking collection of Cyber Security Courses⚠️

Ꝏ 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚈𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 Ꝏ

From here it is important you choose a ⚠️IDE⚠️ to do your programming with. This of course depends on your language, but most IDE's can handle multiple.

The current most popular free option is ⚠️MicroShit's Visual Studio Code⚠️, it has an ⚠️open source⚠️ base. Another popular commercial vendor (with free options) of IDE's is ⚠️JetBrains⚠️.

Two popular open source IDE's are ⚠️Eclipse⚠️ and ⚠️Atom⚠️

Of course, if you're hardcore or just hate your mouse, you stick to a terminal based IDE such as ⚠️Vim⚠️, ⚠️NeoVim⚠️ or ⚠️Emacs⚠️.

It is advisable to learn ⚠️basic Linux/Unix commands⚠️. Unix is the original OS on which Linux is based. Many systems run the ⚠️BASH⚠️ command interpreter and also Windows has ⚠️adapted BASH natively⚠️.

Manuals and "README" files are a developers best friend. Always open them if you see them with a project. Be aware of the existence of ⚠️man pages⚠️ (also suited for women).

There are endless resources to find code and help you code online. Yet again a short list:

    ⚠️StackOverflow⚠️ - for all your IT related questions on the clearnet

    ⚠️Github⚠️ - search in many open source projects

    ⚠️DuckDuckGO (onion)⚠️ - privacy first search engine

    ⚠️SearchCode⚠️ - code specialized search engine