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How to begin "real" programming
Around a year ago I decided to start learning to program in order to make a little bit of money on the side. I learned javascript, html, css and a little php and python in order to start web development. My friend then designed for me websites, and I built them up to be sold. I made quite a bit of money doing this, and had a lot of fun, but now I want to start to actually make programs, or do some sort of modelling, anything which uses more maths basically (I'm starting a maths degree hopefully in September).
In the future, I really want to go into some sort of financial analyst job (front office type role) - I searched online for the programming languages they use, and most people were saying you need to know how to use excel well, and some other programming languages which I've never heard of. I read online to really learn programming it's best to just install linux (which I did) and just experiment with that. I installed it on my netbook, and I have no idea what to do, or what anything does. I really want to start to learn how to go into modelling/software development, and just learn how to understand programming really, rather than following some guide all the time.
I really don't want to go into web development in the future - and hope I can learn more useful languages to go into my hopeful career. If anyone could recommend what to do next it'd be appreciated, thanks.
Around a year ago I decided to start learning to program in order to make a little bit of money on the side. I learned javascript, html, css and a little php and python in order to start web development. My friend then designed for me websites, and I built them up to be sold. I made quite a bit of money doing this, and had a lot of fun, but now I want to start to actually make programs, or do some sort of modelling, anything which uses more maths basically (I'm starting a maths degree hopefully in September).
In the future, I really want to go into some sort of financial analyst job (front office type role) - I searched online for the programming languages they use, and most people were saying you need to know how to use excel well, and some other programming languages which I've never heard of. I read online to really learn programming it's best to just install linux (which I did) and just experiment with that. I installed it on my netbook, and I have no idea what to do, or what anything does. I really want to start to learn how to go into modelling/software development, and just learn how to understand programming really, rather than following some guide all the time.
I really don't want to go into web development in the future - and hope I can learn more useful languages to go into my hopeful career. If anyone could recommend what to do next it'd be appreciated, thanks.