Saturday, February 7, 2026

some strategies for learning new programming languages

some strategies for learning new programming languages

##words to help with google ai search for learning a new programming language

Method

Variable

class (if available)

Loop

If else statement


Ex:

[language] how do you write a [concept] hello world example

Ex:

C++ how do you write a method hello world example

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#one strategy for improving knowledge in programming language

Pick a professional code example in that language to study like on GitHub

Pick a file in that reference code 

Slowly go through each line of file taking note of anything not understood like:

Syntax not understood, usage not understood, any words not understood, any public apis that come with language not understood etc.

Later come back to each of your notes:

Create a google search ex:

[language] [thing not understood] example hello world

Ex:

C++ std::pair example hello world

Then read the top most google ai summary of response of the search

It’s possible to save a reference of that text to a folder for that programming language. Then can practice in language possibly modifying example as the ai search example doesn’t always give perfectly runnable code.


Thanks for looking