I may be dating myself but, yours truly is going back to school. I know there are some savvy frens on here, so I wanted to see if I could get any heads-up tips that would make this process go more smoothly! Anything small or large would be appreciated; I barely know the first things about coding. Thanks for any input!
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Typing and 10-key (the numbers and math symbols on the right side of the keyboard). Make sure to use whenever possible.
Choose platform independant languages. You never know who is going to be the flavor of the year, or where jobs may lead. Being able to program for windows, Linux, Unix, Android, Apple(Unix), web languages, makes you more valuable , and able to survive dying platforms.
Don't get stuck programming a dying/dead language, no matter how cool it sounds. Pascal, COBOL, Silverlight, Ruby (yeah, it's barely hanging on, just move on), BASIC, etc. Hard languages, object oriented, web scripts, doesn't matter. Stay away.
Coding and programming are two different things. Writing scripts and programming are likewise, not the same thing.
Programs are compiled. Get student licenses of the programming tools you want/need, including the compiling software. It will save tons of money.
Source: 20+ years in IT. Mainly networking/servers, mainframes. Some scripting (silly little batch files, powershell, HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc).p