stupid teacher sucked. i passed the class but i felt like i didnt learn anything from him.. how do you guys learn a new lenguage? when making a program do you write it all in paper or just code away and figure it out?

I've never been able to learn until I really wanted to do something and couldn't without learning. Any sort of sink or swim environment helps too

Mobile dev - I do the UI and user flow on paper then work backwards from there. I don't know if that's the best way though

I am entirely self-taught and tend to learn via a mixture of documentation and trial and error though playing around with the thing i am learning.

It took me ages to learn to program, I ultimately picked Python cos my tutors had not thought to ruin that yet. I had a problem that I wanted to solve and I just went onto use it as the basis for my thesis.

It was awful but I learned, and in learning I discovered things and made my code better and so on.

I've taught a few people to code too, and they've gone through the code academy stuff and still don't feel confident, it's a matter of repetition and practicing every day. Just like Amy other skill really.

You cant expect to learn a language from a college degree. you learn the basics and maybe a few libraries or frameworks. Mainly you learn how to think and finish a hell lot of work in a ridiculous short ammount of time. the best way to learn a language is to have side projects...get a goal and try to build it.

Well I shout at people in IRC chamnels until they answer my questions...

As a mostly open source dev I get motivated by stuff like "this project NEED this", but it's in some weird language and Noone bother adding it... Let mer start guessing...