Software Development Starter Advice.

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Ok so I just finished a computing course at college (UK) and am looking to carry on my studies at University, although I still feel a noob when it comes to programming etc, is there any advice that anyone could give me to help me get started in this field while i'm on my gap year working in a office, as i'll have a lot of time to study at work and at home.

[pyrotemplar]

just get yourself a book on the language u want to learn and do all the problems and sample programs in it. simple way to get started.

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Step1: Find something on your computer that you think is missing, be it some automation of tasks or unifying different systems into one.
Step2: Program it.

A huge percentage of programming nowadays it not writing something standalone but enabling systems to work together.

[Badpaladin]

Find some projects to work on.

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/to...ct-ideas-list/

After only a year you probably wouldn't be able to do too many of these completely, but it's a start.