Thread: Bit of direction

First of all, Hi to everyone

I'm just getting into programming, a little late for my age but it's something I've always wanted to do, not as a career or anything like that, just a hobby and personal interest, but I've always been put off because of the "maths" side to it.

Been working through some practice examples, but I wanted to know... because I'm not brilliant when it comes to maths, am I going to just keep getting stuck because of this?

or more to what I am asking is, am I wasting my time lol.

I do have more questions, but I'll just leave it at that for the time being

also, although I am picking it up, I'm not remembering everything by its proper terms... like referring to instructions as statements etc... I just have my own understanding for what each thing is doing, is that bad practice? Should I be learning the proper terms for everything

Many thanks for anyone who replys

thanks for the reply Andrew

I will stick at it, it's pretty interesting

I've only really started learning the basics, stuff like IF statements and creating my own functions and creating my own menus etc...

I will probably be asking more questions in the future, one thing that threw me a bit was the boolean operators, I understand that they come out as true or false to be used in IF statements, don't suppose you could expand on what I know and give me some examples at all could you?

Preferably the NOT if possible

Should I be learning the proper terms for everything

Yes, so people will know what you mean for sure. You can memorize new terms along with whatever else you are learning. You're going to be spending a lot of time talking to other programmers I hope, so knowing what you're talking about is important.

Is programming something where things make sense the more you do it?

so say something that, although I understand the basics of it but not its full potential, the more I stick at programming and learn more, the more it will get used... if that makes sense.

When I first started to learn it, I looked at some source code someone had written and it was a complete mystery, but now having learn some aspects of C++ I can actually follow the code and what it is doing.

cool

well no doubt i'll be back again asking questions, thanks for the advice though and thanks to whiteflags as well