[Tutor] I need some guidance

[jfouhy at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting John Carmona <jeannot18 at hotmail.com>:

> Second question: As i am not, unfortunately, involved professionaly in
> the field of programming is there a specific technique to learn other than
> just read everything I put my hand on?

Reading is fine, but you really need to be writing code to cement your
knowledge.  I find it very helpful if I have a projcet of some kind to work on
if I'm learning something new.  Which leads on to ---

> Third question: Does anybody know if it is possible to get involved in
> this field in a non-lucrative kind of way in order to learn faster and of
> course to apply this science in a real world.

Well, look around yourself.  Is there anything that you do which might benefit
from some basic programming?

For example, I play ultimate frisbee.  So my "learn python" project was to
create a CGI system for handling the ultimate leagues here in Wellington
(displaying this week's games, recording scores, calculating leaderboards, etc).

The code I produced is not a model for anyone on this list to look at, but it
did get me into the language :-)

-- 
John.