• Question: Do you know any programming languages? if so what ones and where they hard to learn?

    Asked by 428bera39 to Triona on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Tríona O'Connell

      Tríona O'Connell answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I know a bit of C (for programming arduinos), and that’s not too hard to pick in the context of arduino.
      I have a bit of Python, which is a good place to start general programming. I have a couple of useful little programmes to help me with work and my home shopping list.
      I like R a lot for statistics, especially for making beautiful graphs with ggplot2.
      I don’t they’re particularly hard to pick up, but if you don’t use them regularly you have to relearn to use them (that happens to me a lot). I’d especially recommend trying to learn it in a class to begin with, it can be handy to have someone to ask questions, especially when you get frustrated and have no idea why something’s not working

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  • Photo: 428bera39

    428bera39 commented on :

    Thanks for your help, do you know anywhere around dublin where you could start learning a programming language? I’ve looked for courses on the internet but there no good.

  • Photo: Triona

    Triona commented on :

    There’s a few coderdojos, but I’m not sure what the age limits on them are (I know there’s one in DCU and one in the Science Gallery, and probably many more). We’ve run courses from time to time in TOG (you’d have to be over 16 and I dont know if there’s any planned soon).