How Did You Learn How To Program?

[kgzak]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Yea it was a breeze to program in Java the hard part was trying to debug it, because it might not even be your code at all, but electrical, so it took a simple problem like an hour to fix... I was trying to fix whats not broken and just messes everything up... Other than that, it was really easy, I just cant understand how people can use LabView...

Debugging can be difficult but my dad, one of the programing mentors, is an electrical, mechanical, and software engineer. He has experience and normally knows were to look. I learned LabView simply by being able to play with it. I didn't find it hard to understand. I have no experience with Java, so I don't know how hard Java is. If you just play around with it, maybe you can learn to understand it.

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by kgzak

Debugging can be difficult but my dad, one of the programing mentors, is an electrical, mechanical, and software engineer. He has experience and normally knows were to look. I learned LabView simply by being able to play with it. I didn't find it hard to understand. I have no experience with Java, so I don't know how hard Java is. If you just play around with it, maybe you can learn to understand it.

No I was saying that the problem was electrical all along and I change my code (which is correct) but it becomes wrong and too much headaches... Yea I agree, programming is mostly from experience... Big companies rather have the person with 4 year experience in programming than a kid with 4 years of education but 0 years on real programming experience...

[Mori1578]

I learned JAVA (my first programming language) 3 or 4 years ago alone, because my programming class was way too slow.
After two years programming in java we started our FRC team and as a very small team i was the only one on the electronics and programming.
Because we started our team two weeks after the kickoff, i didnt have the time to go to a LabView course or something like that.
I watched a "how to make a simple motor vi with joystick" video in NI's website and understood the basic code, and then - everything is the same in LabView.
I made myself a testing enviroment - took all the electronics and connected them and tried different codes. After two weeks of this i could program the 2009's robot.
Good luck