How can I become a good programmer?

Question

Hello All, this is Rehan Ahmed.
It has been a month since I graduated. I have chosen computer science because I was eager to learn new technologies.
But I was not able to learn programming. I know C, Java, Html and Css but I can't develop or write a code on my own..
I got a job recently but its a non technical one!
Can anyone suggest me how to learn the programming language and how to implement on my own...

Answer 1

Well for me programming is a passion, but people are different, but what I can say is practice, practice all the time try out different programming languages there is a load out there. you say you know with me I see something I like then I try to recreate it my self. I am always learning. Just keep at it you become good in the end. Good luck

Answer 2

Ben is right. I had the same problem starting out. I couldn't decide what kind of programmer to become until I did months of research into what field of programming I loved. So, I decided to become a hacker (cracker) and taught myself low level languages and learned some assembly for reverse engineering. The trick to getting started is having a purpose. You can learn to read code fine. Anybody could, in theory. But having a goal for a project will give you the drive to building something. Moreover, it will give you the drive to add to it and improve it. Once that's been completed, you'll likely want to build a better version and the cycle will continue until you've mastered the code necessary to build whatever it is you built. By then, you won't need to keep going to stackoverflow for answers. Do this with a handful of projects (and possibly build these projects in tandem with each other so you can put them together as modules later on down the road). At that point, you can consider yourself self-sufficient and able to really get things done on the coding end (aka you'll be a real programmer).