A way to gain programming experience

[MisterWhite]

So i've been learning c++ in school, and off school, started c#, and i was wondering is there another good way to gain xp without doing those console exercises?

[You_are_a_cunt]

Start a project and stick to it.

Pretty much that.

[The Official Czex]

So i've been learning c++ in school, and off school, started c#, and i was wondering is there another good way to gain xp without doing those console exercises?

 

CodeAcademy?

 

Koding?

 

Oh, nvm, no console stuff.

 

Yeah, what Mr. Jiggawatts said, just do something and use StackOverflow for things you don't know. Remember to take notes on what you don't know.

[ShadowCaptain]

So i've been learning c++ in school, and off school, started c#, and i was wondering is there another good way to gain xp without doing those console exercises?

 

Write a program

[kwljunky]

So i've been learning c++ in school, and off school, started c#, and i was wondering is there another good way to gain xp without doing those console exercises?

Maybe do a few aurdino projects, rapsberry pi ect. 

 

I would have thought a fun way to do it was get one of those lego robot kits, and do a few projects in that. A few books on that, as well as the aurdino stuff. 

 

The more hands on, slightly closer to the metal approach might help you learn the basics a bit more enthusiastically. 

[themaniac]

just make, make, make!!!

 

or

 

just code, code, code!!!

[MisterWhite]

Start a project and stick to it.

Pretty much that.

what do you call a project(example please )?

Does an application that sorts files into folders count? (i know my friend made it)

[Paralectic]

Think about something, not too easy, not too complicated.

Decide on what language.

Do it, no matter how or what. Google everything and gain knowledge.

[Kirky2k15]

VB6

[madknight3]

is there another good way to gain xp without doing those console exercises?

 

What do you mean by console exercises? Do you mean you want to skip creating Console apps and move onto something with a GUI?

[Ekko]

Think of a program that you had never done before, the ones that'll challenge you and won't be a repetition of something you already knew. That's how I learned C# (not C++ but same rules apply). I remember creating a game almost every week until pretty much any game I tried to make shared similar concepts with the ones I've created in the past. 

 

I guess you know you've learned when you aren't getting challenged anymore and if given a problem, you could easily analyze the necessary code to create the program in your head and then it's just a matter of typing it.

[MisterWhite]

What do you mean by console exercises? Do you mean you want to skip creating Console apps and move onto something with a GUI?

this kind of http://practiceexercisescsharp.blogspot.com.es/

I was just wondering is there a better way to gain experience

[Bink]

Linus seems to talk about lynda.com a lot, why not go check it out?

[Azgoth 2]

what do you call a project(example please )?

Does an application that sorts files into folders count? (i know my friend made it)

A few projects I've done in Python (the implementation will be very different, naturally, in C++/C#, but this might give you an idea for types of projects):

• A random music generator that takes a given array of frequency values and spits out a .wav file with a pure tone that randomly jumps between those values.  It starts at one frequency, plays it for either a random time or a user-defined time, then picks another tone from the list, smoothly transitions to it, rinse and repeat until the output file is of the desired length.  It can overlay multiple tone series on top of each other and make some neat white noise-type stuff.
• Various scripts to simulate hundredsor thousands of hands of various dice games to get an idea of typical point distributions.  E.g.: a script that rolls Yahtzee hands and sees how long it takes to get a Yahtzee.  It rolls thousands of Yahtzees, then plots them by number of rolls until the magic 5-of-a-kind roll comes up (so you get an idea of how long it typically takes to actually roll a Yahtzee).  Also, one that simultes thousands of hands of Ship, Captain, Crew to get a sense of what the points look like over many, many hands.
• An HTML scraper to automatically pull forum post data (post text, user name, post date, etc) from specific forums (as of now it requires re-writing for each different forum I want to take data from), which I hope to use to create a large corpus of forum posts for doing some corpus linguistics work with (I haven't actually run it beyond just a few test cases yet).  Warning, if you do something like this, be sure you ask the admins of the site if it's okay first, because they might really not want you doing something like this.
• A simulation of the acoustics of the human vocal tract.

Granted, the above are probably a bit more of a scripting language sort of approach, but you can still do them in something like C++/C#/etc.  Alternatively, as people have said, you could invest in a Raspberry Pi or Arduino and some peripherals (though this might run you up a bit of money) and work with using the Pi/Arduino as a microcontroller for, say, a string of LEDs or some robotics.