[Acko]

I learned from the new boston on youtube. He teaches basically EVERY language you can think of, and some more (wine making, chemistry...). But I know a lot of you have learned the legitimate way, by reading a book or sitting in class. So how did you learn?

[Darth-Apple]

I learned primarily with experience. I usually find myself playing around with some code and exploring concepts until things start to make sense. References are also very useful. For C, "C in a nutshell" was my main reference. For PHP, w3schools was my primary reference, along with the official PHP documentation.

Experience is almost always the best teacher if you have enough patience.

[Acko]

Also practice. I tried learning Cplusplus from a book without reviewing and practice, and that failed (last year). But now I'm going back over it, and now I know a fair good bit of it.

[Darth-Apple]

I agree. Practice definitely makes a huge difference for sure.

[Acko]

I've also decided for my first serious java project I'll make a plugin for bukkit involving war... and bloodshed.
:twisted:

[simlink]

I learned to code Java in a class, but it wasn't expansive. We did do some graphics with it. I made a very broken brick-breaker game. I learned HTML/CSS from experience and various online tutorials.