Learning to program: Chapter 2

Last chapter we talked about finding your motivations for wanting to become a software developer or programmer. We covered how to set goals and hold yourself accountable to said goals. Then I shared resources with you to let you know some of what I found really beneficial in my time researching programming. Next we will cover Data types. I will mostly be sticking to Javascript and React for this course. Javascript is the programming language I learned well. React is the framework I worked with for a while.

Data Types:

There are some basic data types every programmer must know. Whether you seek to build micro-service architecture or just building web-apps you will get familiar with these real quick. You will need to learn these basic building blocks of code by heart. In JavaScript the types are loose and dynamic.

It also helps with any Technical interviews you may have in the future. See computers think in 1s and 0s. The way we as humans think is more syntactically. This is why computer programming languages were born. Instead of a long list of numbers we could represent common data structures used to preform a task by assigning it a data type value.

For extended reading on data types please check out the mozilla web development page below: