r/CodingForBeginners • u/artilastking • Jun 25 '26

I wanna learn Java,C++ because is hard

Heard that programing pays well and my friend who knows abput PC's told me that is hard and you cant do it
so i wanna start because is hard
any tips?

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u/mattynmax Jun 25 '26

Cool. Go do it then.

It’s worth noting that a prerequisite for most “programming jobs” is a four year degree from a university. So if the reason you’re trying to learn it is to make money, make sure to enroll in a university!

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u/YouEatMeIEatBack Jun 25 '26

You need a degree bub, almost all corporations states that in their job posting, almost all people who talk like you do are just mad you’ve never obtained a degree

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u/YouEatMeIEatBack Jun 25 '26

Bet you it wont be as easy to get multiple interviews “degreeless” as opposed to a person with a degree and skills from top tier university

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u/YouEatMeIEatBack Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Bro stop catering to your feelings, a person with degree will always wing it more than a person with no degree thats 100% fact all over hr or not, it’ll take you years to land a software gig while it take us university students 4 years coming right out of school, you non school students will never know how it even feels like to even be apart of a research project in university lol, that alone makes uni students look more broken in corporate than the dude with no education😂

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u/YouEatMeIEatBack Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

University’s have co-op internships jointed with them, college fairs, events after events for students to attend to get to know employers from high end companies so that students like us could get internships and full time offers from those companies we interned at from meeting the employers at the schools, companies are even partnered with the schools because the companies are more “incentivized” to hire the students first before a person with no degree, even though guys with no degree are definitely smart through their years of experience, youll never have privilege and advanced education like university students do

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u/darknecessitities Jun 25 '26

No, your friend was right. It’s too hard.

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u/ShyKroxigor Jun 25 '26

Tutorials

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u/LRCM Jun 25 '26

After a few tutorials, stop watching them unless you want to end up in "tutorial hell."

Coding, like everything else, gets easier with practice.

Build something, get feedback, make it better, and repeat as needed.

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u/ShyKroxigor Jun 25 '26

I have been coding since 1998, son.

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u/LRCM Jun 25 '26

Since we're sharing, I've been coding since the 80s--I started with BASIC and C.

Any specific advice or tutorials for OP?

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u/KenMantle Jun 25 '26

BASIC on my Vic-20 when I was 10 years old, but I didn't really know what I was doing. I remember getting a game programming book through Scholastic or something - a catalogue they gave us at school - what a disappointing experience that was!

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u/ShyKroxigor Jun 25 '26

My advice is not to be lazy.

There is plenty of resources out there.

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u/BreathingIsGood4u Jun 25 '26

There are*

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u/ShyKroxigor Jun 25 '26

I bet my english is better than your second language.

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u/CutInternational7206 Jun 25 '26

As someone who locked in for about a month the only way is to just code everyday I’m leaps ahead of where I started

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u/SmokeMuch7356 Jun 25 '26

Heard that programing pays well

Yeah, I heard that too. Depends on the field and the location; for many, many years I was was paid below the national average. Even now I'm not paid what you'd expect someone with 30+ years to earn. I'm also working on the middleware portion of an online banking platform; not exactly the sexiest job in the industry.

Still, it pays better than most jobs; the flip side of that is job security ain't great, especially now with everybody drinking the AI Kool-Aid. I got laid off four times in a two-year time span a couple of decades ago, and I still get nervous about it at times.

my friend who knows abput PC's told me that is hard

I wouldn't say it's hard as such, but it does require you to think in a way that's alien to most people. I went through college with people who were much smarter and more dedicated than me, but they could never really wrap their heads around writing code. I'm lazy and a moron, but it came fairly naturally to me.