How do I go about this? Are there any free resources that’ll help me get started?

I see people advising to start with a small project, but you need to get some basics down right? What language? How to develop it and stuff?

My only experience is some very basic C programming classes I took during school.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    IT guy here, I don’t really program, but I do write scripts in Powershell and Bash from time to time.

    I mostly learn by doing, so I have a task that I need to write a script to accomplish.

    One script I often use is a tool I made to ping devices in a network range.

    This breaks down into several smaller steps.

    1. Define the start IP address
    2. Define the stop IP address
    3. Issue a ping command
    4. Repeat the ping command for every adress in the defined range.
    5. Output the data
    6. Colour code the data
    7. Make every IP address ending with a 0 be colourded in the output.

    Each step is fairly simple to find out how to solve, together they make a good script to solve the initial issue.