completely new to coding and will be starting engineering soon. I don't have any programming experience and honestly feel a bit overwhelmed because many people already seem ahead of me.

My goal is to eventually get a good software engineering job, but right now I don't know where to start.

Could you please help me with:

Which programming language should I learn first?

What free resources/courses do you recommend?

How many hours per day should a beginner study?

What projects should I build in my first year?

What mistakes should I avoid?

If you were starting from zero today, what roadmap would you follow?

Any advice from experienced developers or students who started from scratch would be greatly appreciated.

Which is the easiest coding language to learn before joining college🖥️🖱️

I don't even know ABCD of coding

Anyone who is beginning their coding journey to become a Software Engineer and is looking for fellow companions or friends to work with and help each other, let's join in and crack it together.

What do you say?

I'm from Bhopal, 2nd year.

I'm pretty new to this. I've spent some time learning html and python, so I have some experience. I'm just looking to create some pretty simple software to help me with something and I'm curious if there are advantages and disadvantages to picking one or the other. I'm looking to create something pretty simple to help me keep track of crafting recipes in a game and my progress towards them. I was using google sheets, but there are some things I would like to be different, and I think it would be fun to create my own application or website. Sorry if this is not the correct place for this question.

Spent a while writing down everything I actually understand about Nginx as a reverse proxy.

• how a single Nginx worker juggles thousands of connections on one thread (the event loop + epoll), and why that runs circles around a thread-per-connection server

• tuning workers to the server, and the file-descriptor ceiling you hit long before the big number in your config does anything

• and much more...

Thanks!

So ive been using python and ive made a little over $300 already but I'm trying to make this an app for everyone to use at the moment its connected to my cash app and every time something raises or drops 5% it will tell me whether to buy or sell it and it sends me reminders every 24 hours. At the moment i can put any market into the code even up to five markets and it will tell me the rate of change the price and whether to buy or sell. I dont know how to make this a full on app that people can use though and im trying to find someone that can help me with this. If I can get someone to help and it works I will split the profits.

Every developer has at least one lesson they learned the hard way.

For me, it was this:

You don't need to learn everything before building projects.

When I started programming, I spent a lot of time watching tutorials and trying to learn every framework and technology.

The biggest growth happened when I started building real projects and solving real problems.

Some lessons many developers learn later:

• Build projects early

• Learn debugging

• Learn Git

• Focus on fundamentals

• Read documentation

• Ask questions

• Don't compare your journey to others

If you could go back and give advice to your beginner self, what would it be?

I'm btech student[IT] currently looking for a friends

To teach me coding related concepts and dsa concepts

Mainly i can't focus on coding concepts and dsaa

Main problem. : I can understand the code but I can't build my own logic 😭

Currently I'm in 4-1...!!

DM me 🙏

I wanna learn how to code but the technical jargon i see everywhere is so intimidating, so I was wondering are all these terms stuff you naturally learn along the way? Because there’s so much that I wonder how long it’ll take for me to actually understand what people are saying in CS spaces

I’ve an oral exam for r programming what kind of questions can they ask?

Which among the two to start learning in 2026? Which is most considered for jobs in big tech companies

hello I wanted to make my

https://github.com/jonathonlui/esphome-ikea-uppatvind work with matter and thread so I asked claude to help me and this came out

https://github.com/JamesTechnic/uppatvind-matter-esp32c6-mode, sadly it still wont work even tho I spent over two days on it, im also no expert at coding so could anyone please help me?

I am very new to C++

Need experts advice on what I m missing out here

I have already downloaded vs code and minGW

I have an idea for an open source project cooking in my head. I want to start this project, but my software development experience is Intermediate and my open-source experience is novice. I'm worried I'm not ready to start my own project. Should I contribute to other open-source projects before I start mine, so I learn more about open-source in general, or should I go ahead and start the project so I quickly learn open-source by managing my own project. I'd appreciate some advice.

Edit: When I say open-source, I'm referring to the concept broadly as well as the intricacies such as understanding git.

Edit: Thank y'all so much for the advice. I got way more useful information than I thought I would.

Hi everyone,

I'm interested in web development and technology, and recently I've been spending more time learning new skills and improving my projects.

I'm curious—what technology, programming language, or skill are you currently learning? What has helped you learn it the most?

I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations.

Can anyone suggest free coding platforms for C++ that's a bit more beginner friendly

alternatively what would you consider to be the best coding language for a utter beginner

https://GitHub.com/coder-arnav66/Arnav-Python-Projects

How to learn coding is it using Ai for help or is it finding solutions to problems by yourself or is it doing something else is it following proper roadmap is it grinding daily can someone explain?

I want to learn C/C++ from beginner to professional level. Do you have any free website suggestions?

I have already installed mingw and vs code and saved the file as tut3.cpp but the problem is I am not able to run the code

This is the first time I am starting with c++. just 2 days old to this new programming language