Where Can I Start?

[Greenbell7]

I have recently finished some college courses on C++ and I have dabbled in some C# also. I know a tiny bit of Python but I don't use it much. Are there any places online where I can learn how to code for real projects? I don't need to be paid for it right now (although it would be nice). I just want to keep in practice and become familiar with real-world coding workflows.

 

[RadiatingLight]

You won't be getting paid for it unless you already have either formal education or some serious projects under your belt, but you just gotta try building something. You could start with, for example, creating an app that lets you modify metadata on files (would grow knowledge not only in programming but also in filesystems and stuff), or a QR-code generator, or an encryption/decryption client program, etc. These are just some ideas, the important part is that you build *something*

[Hideki Ryuga]

2 hours ago, Greenbell7 said:

I have recently finished some college courses on C++ and I have dabbled in some C# also. I know a tiny bit of Python but I don't use it much. Are there any places online where I can learn how to code for real projects? I don't need to be paid for it right now (although it would be nice). I just want to keep in practice and become familiar with real-world coding workflows.

 

https://www.theodinproject.com/

[dizmo]

Unless it's just for personal interest, I'd put a lot of thought into spending time on it. Coding jobs will become fewer and fewer, and unless you're really willing to dig down deep and learn a TON, it's kind of a dead end IMO. 

[Greenbell7]

7 hours ago, dizmo said:

Unless it's just for personal interest, I'd put a lot of thought into spending time on it. Coding jobs will become fewer and fewer, and unless you're really willing to dig down deep and learn a TON, it's kind of a dead end IMO. 

It's mainly to keep in practice. I actually plan to major in cybersecurity (which I am hoping is not a waste). I do have a game that I am working on as a pet project, but I stopped coding because I wanted to get some of the art done. Now that I seem to have finished the coding classes for my degree, I think I might start working on more code for my game.

[g0ated]

14 hours ago, Greenbell7 said:

I have recently finished some college courses on C++ and I have dabbled in some C# also. I know a tiny bit of Python but I don't use it much. Are there any places online where I can learn how to code for real projects? I don't need to be paid for it right now (although it would be nice). I just want to keep in practice and become familiar with real-world coding workflows.

 

If you want serious money, then you need qualifications.

 

If you can't do that then I recommend getting into bug bounty and studying up on rev engineering etc so you could get payouts on HackerOne but even that's a long shot from what I am guessing in your situation. 

 

Also, maybe try doing a project with a topic you have learnt in your algo/EE/math classes like FFTs, for an example I recently made a java project that used FFTs to make an audio visualizer. (I used the cooley tukey radix 2 algorithm if you're curious).

 

Right now I am making my assembler in c just for fun but also so I have something to showcase. 

[imtaqin.id]

Here you can start https://roadmap.sh/

[wasab]

Real project is just like any hobbyist project except way more code and better(hopefully) structured and good coding patterns + good practices. Last part is iffy. I have seen some atrocious production code too, albeit small in the larger gigantic code base and most of these come from outsourced contractors without any code reviews. Lol

[SureNotSir]

Learn ASM and C/C++ first. Why? Because you can learn almost any other coding language after very easy, in minutes. This is the hard way, i know. After that, you know how systems work, a chip works, you are ahead of almost any other IT guy out there.

[wasab]

9 minutes ago, SureNotSir said:

Learn ASM and C/C++ first. Why? Because you can learn almost any other coding language after very easy, in minutes. This is the hard way, i know. After that, you know how systems work, a chip works, you are ahead of almost any other IT guy out there.

Heck no. I learned c and ASM and then tried learning rust, got hopelessly confused by the borrow checker because it is like no other programming language has such thing. In fact, seasoned developers require 6 months to be comfortable with rust on average. Some programming language have such sharp learning curve, no matter how much you code in lower level language is gonna help. 

[Hideki Ryuga]

Rust is more like python than any other language. If anything I would call it like C++ if C++ was built to be like python.

 

But it definitely is the hardest language I've ever had to learn, and I actively wanted to learn it. The entire language and way of doing things can be really confusing at first. It really feels like a foreign language because the rust way of doing things requires changing how you think about things.

[ocueye]

GitHub. Just find some project on GitHub and if it has an issue or you want to add a feature, do so and create a pull request. You can also find issues that you have that you can fix with code and make a repo for them.

Bonus points as you can put your GitHub on your resume and you learn git which you will probably need to use.