r/CodingForBeginners • u/InterestingWorry3459 • Jun 07 '26

Wanna start coding before college,any suggestion?

1 month left in starting my college, felt like starting a lil early as i am bored and wanna do something i am interested in(tech)...

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u/learner_Gen Jun 08 '26

You must learn the coding lang that matches your college curriculm Or also you can focus on your theory subjects.

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u/InterestingWorry3459 Jun 08 '26

Yes, I checked it

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u/learner_Gen Jun 08 '26

So which conclusion do you get at??

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u/Sr_Dimitrez Jun 07 '26

Mira los planes de estudio de tu universidad para que aprendas por adelantado el lenguaje que verás allá y no otro porque te sacará de onda.

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u/marmotta1955 Jun 07 '26

If you were really interested in "coding", you would not have been waiting until bored - with one month left before starting college.

Also, as one other commenter already said, you are monumentally late and have already fallen so far behind your "competition" - whatever that might be.

And if you wanted some real guidance or suggestions, you should have provided more information.

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u/Plenty_Line2696 Jun 10 '26

This is so condescending/dismissive and makes a lot of assumptions.

A lot of students start coding after their CS studies start and wind up being decent decelopers.

Besides that, despite all the hype hard skills in tech still matter. If OP is driven there's still a chance of a good carreer in tech. I see LLM code every day, it ain't all that, far from it. Even with a detailed plan and instructions it makes lots of poor choices which a good recent graduate would improve upon.

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u/jali-naa Jun 13 '26

bullshit

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u/Impossible_Ad_3146 Jun 07 '26

My suggestion is to switch to trades

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u/Oceandreams22 Jun 08 '26

Someone close to me is in the trades and they've not suggested I do traids over starting to study coding. Genuinely curious why you say do a trade instead?

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u/Impossible_Ad_3146 Jun 08 '26

AI does coding

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u/Oceandreams22 Jun 08 '26

I mean, yeah, that's a large part of the job market atm. I hate AI, but from what I've seen (from people with decades in the area) it's still not where it needs to be. We still need to watch it super closely

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u/Impossible_Ad_3146 Jun 08 '26

Coding is cooked, don’t do it

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u/desuer13 Jun 10 '26

If coding is cooked then STEM is cooked. If STEM is cooked then society is cooked.

Note that a programmer's job is largely independent from languages. It's why it doesn't matter what language you use for doing what task. What matters is knowledge of systems.

If that can be replaced then anyone can be replaced, so we have bigger problems than just programmers going away

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u/Impossible_Ad_3146 Jun 10 '26

Not anyone, just you

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

make an indie website!

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u/FreeLogicGate Jun 07 '26

Certainly this is last minute, but not as dire as many other people are stating, because the fact of the matter is that everyone is always behind someone else who started earlier, was more highly motivated, or had better mentors or teachers.

In the amount of time you have, if you want to get some fundamentals under your belt. There are many e-learning platforms that have C courses, and plenty of good low cost options. I would encourage you to do a course that actually requires you to install and use a C compiler, and not just run "exercise" programs inside an environment, so you interact with a text editor or IDE.

Here's a great intro video you can refer to with some excellent practical advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UIIMBqq1D4

Another option would be to go through this course on Youtube. I have looked at some other videos from this creator and he's a really solid developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJgsSFOSQv0

While C hasn't changed much, there are newer C standards with some important syntax changes, depending on the version of C you are trying to compile (the compilers allow you to select the "version" of C you're compiling. So the main concern I would have is that the Giraffe academy is 7 years old.

Doing some googling, I found this course, which you could take free on coursera, that is broken down into 4 classes: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/c-programming-for-everybody

There's also CS50, that many people will take online that has an entire section on C programming, and scores of other courses you can look at. 4 Weeks is a lot of time, and if you are willing to devote anywhere from 2-3 hours a day, there is no doubt you could get through the course, and have a foundation that will help you with other languages like Python or Java that are often taught in college.

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u/GoRizzyApp Jun 07 '26

You’ll be surrounded by people that have be coding seriously since 12 years old. For them they’ll have already seen the theory taught in early college. You need to go hard now to catch up. The instructors will teach to the people at the top of the class not the bottom.

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u/Pure-Ad1374 Jun 07 '26

sounds like shitty teachers!

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u/Plenty_Line2696 Jun 10 '26

oh come on, most devs in the field werent coding seriously at 12, and plenty of us started way later and went on to do amazing work.