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I have been getting into coding more since the past few years but not spent enough time on it to know where to fully start, i am wanting to start coding as a job or career but don't know where to learn the things i need to know, such as "what language to specialise in" or what everything means, online there isn't many tutorials or anything, i am wanting to do mostly software engineering, creating desktop applications and desktop software, can someone please help me find a place to know mostly what i need to know, thanks
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So you are wanting to learn C# (C sharp). I know many people here learned C# from game modification back in the days, but you can find these types of tutorials online on youtube and/or code academy.
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Start with something like C++(C# works too), java or python those are good starting languages in my experience. As far as learning online goes you can go to places like codeacademy to learn the basics, some youtube tutorials are good but you wont retain the information if you dont work on any projects its not something you can learn through absorption. Once you have the basics you just set out to do something and research all the problems you run into. Getting into the market without a degree or experience is going to be a big challenge.
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maDz wrote So you are wanting to learn C# (C sharp). I know many people here learned C# from game modification back in the days, but you can find these types of tutorials online on youtube and/or code academy.


C# Is a great place to start. I wouldn't recommend codecademy though, because most of their tutorials are centered around web programming.

If you want to get in so software development, you could really use any language you want. If you want to have programs that have graphical interfaces, you could use python (which codecademy does cover), java or even C#.

If you want to create some command line programs, you would be better suited to learn C++ or Python.

For C# I would recommend picking up a C# for dummies book. They are pretty basic and will cover everything that you will need to know to make programs.

As for a IDE I would recommend Visual Studio. They have a community edition that is free and has just as many features as the full version. This will be the best tool to have for creating programs in C#. I would, however, diversify and learn other IDEs for job reasons.

I have experience with C++ and C#. I'm learning C++ in college and I used C# to make some modding programs for an RGH/JTAG.
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Start With either

Visual Basic / Studio
C#
C++

its easy when you get the hang of it, especially Visual basic.
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