It may or may not be true that you can learn a programming language in 7 or 21 days, and it may or may not depend on what "learn to program" book you read. However, it does take a lot longer than that to gain experience in how to use a language most effectively. It is a cumulative process that builds up your skills day after day and year after year.
Programming can also be fun and rewarding (mentally, spiritually and financially). This guide does not promise to give a magical easy way to becoming a programmer, and the ordering of the steps is not sacred, but you'll get a general outline of how to become a programmer in one of the modern programming fields.
Steps
Prepare yourself for becoming a programmer:
Take an introductory course in logic, discrete mathematics or both.
Learn at least one of the following program conception techniques. As you advance in programming you may find them useful.
Flow Charting (globally considered the easiest to learn)
Pseudo-Code
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Object Relational Mapping (ORM)Learn database concepts such as tables, views/queries and procedures. You can use any simple database package to do this, such as MS access, DB V, Fox Pro, Paradox. MySQL is a particularly good database to learn because it's free, commonly used, and databases are commonly accessed with SQL queries.
Learn about programming paradigms[6] (an introduction is enough for now), the most important being procedural, object oriented, functional, logic and declarative programming.
Decide what type of programmer you are/want to be. Programmers generally fall under one of the following categories:
Web Programmer
Desktop Application Programmer
Operating System (OS) Oriented (tied to a single operating system or set of operating systems)
Platform Independent
Distributed Applications Programmer
Library/Platform/Framework/Core Programmer
System Programmer
Kernel Programmer
Driver Programmer
Compiler Programmer
Programming Scientist
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