So you want to learn to program
I have had “learn to program” on my list of stuff to do for years. It’s always “after I do this…”
But! There is a great new resource created by the fabulous William J. Turkel & Alan MacEachern called the Programming Historian which is also great for librarians and any scholar who wants a way to make programs that are actually useful to your work.
You can find it at the Programming Historian Wiki.
I’ll be working through it over the next week or two, and then I hope to move to some of the other programming resources I never seem to get around to.
Hi Karin,
It doesn’t get any easier to carve out time once you have a job
I have to echo Dorothea’s sentiments about learning languages that are directly applicable to a project. Whatever languages you decide to pick up in your copious free time will be an asset, because you have proven you can learn programming, and therefore, picking up the necessary languages would not be a problem.
Good luck! You’re already ahead of the curve.
I have discovered this week that no school != more free time. At least not yet- I still have a backlog of things I meant to get around to when I was in school! And, of course, I want to start on a 2nd master’s after I graduate.
I totally agree about picking something that has to do with a project- which is why I love the Programming Historian resource- I can see immediate applicability, which I don’t see in most programming books. (Why would I want to write a program to create the fibonacci sequence?)