How do you learn computers?

[teacups]

WARNING: will be retarded.
i already pretty much asked this in the no stupid question thread on like the internet board i think, but i'll just ask this here too bc i didn't even know this existed till now. okay, so, i'm tired of having to rely on other people coming in to fix shit/mess around with stuff that looks pretty easy once i see what they're actually doing. so the question here is: how can i learn about programming/computers/general technology? like do i take classes? what are good websites? should i just browse weird forums obsessively?

 

[Make Anime Illegal]

Start by reading The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

KHAN! academy

 

[Penis Drager]

90% of fixing computers (software-wise) is googling the error code and doing what it says.
If you got viruses or some shit, it depends on your OS but (assuming Windows) go to the "Control Panel" and the "Programs and Features" and delete shit that describes itself as "providing advertisements" or whatever the fuck. If you don't recognize it, you probably don't need it.
You are now a certified IT professional. screenshot this post as your degree.

 

[Erika Furudo]

Currently doing something similar, I'm reading "But how do it know" by J. Clark Scott, which is a pretty good start imo. It talks about how computers work from their most basic level with gates and bits, then moving up to bites and memory. It really depends on how you want to learn and what you feel comfortable with. My issue was I always asked in school and it never went back beyond some superficial layer which left me technophobic becuase I didn't really have a grasp of technology, so personally I think starting at the very basic, hardware level is probably the best. After this I plan to read up more on hardware, then look into code and operating systems.
Also I think books are a great starting point because you can't fuck up your computer, that comes later when looking at OS and coding.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Currently doing something similar, I'm reading "But how do it know" by J. Clark Scott, which is a pretty good start imo. It talks about how computers work from their most basic level with gates and bits, then moving up to bites and memory. It really depends on how you want to learn and what you feel comfortable with. My issue was I always asked in school and it never went back beyond some superficial layer which left me technophobic becuase I didn't really have a grasp of technology, so personally I think starting at the very basic, hardware level is probably the best. After this I plan to read up more on hardware, then look into code and operating systems.
Also I think books are a great starting point because you can't fuck up your computer, that comes later when looking at OS and coding.

Once you have the computer with OS installed and want to start to poke in its ones and zeros, just image the harddrive to an external storage and then even if you ruin the entire OS installation and fuck up every setting you can, restoring it back to the state you saved is a matter of moments. It wasn't this much fun back when I kept ruining my Win 3.11 installations on my only computer and only hdd.

 

[Lame Entropy]

Google my dude. It's how I learned Python and how to install a hard drive. There are free lessons out there for anything you want to know.

 

[stares at error messages]

WARNING: will be retarded.
i already pretty much asked this in the no stupid question thread on like the internet board i think, but i'll just ask this here too bc i didn't even know this existed till now. okay, so, i'm tired of having to rely on other people coming in to fix shit/mess around with stuff that looks pretty easy once i see what they're actually doing. so the question here is: how can i learn about programming/computers/general technology? like do i take classes? what are good websites? should i just browse weird forums obsessively?

Start taking IQ pills? Read about computer and play with computers. You're not going to break and if you do just buy a new one to break. It's what I do.

 

[ItsTheShitt]

90% of fixing computers (software-wise) is googling the error code and doing what it says.
If you got viruses or some shit, it depends on your OS but (assuming Windows) go to the "Control Panel" and the "Programs and Features" and delete shit that describes itself as "providing advertisements" or whatever the fuck. If you don't recognize it, you probably don't need it.
You are now a certified IT professional. screenshot this post as your degree.

No this is all bullshit
If you use Windows, sfc /scannow will fix anything at least that's what the official microsoft empolyees at Microsoft Answers says

 

[Coffee Shits]

Did you try turning it off and on again?

 

[ItsTheShitt]

if you do just buy a new one to break

Excuse me, but this encourages e-waste
If you break a PC, try to fix it (it might be easy if its just a software problem)

KHAN! academy

thats retarded

 

[AJneedsElocution]

I hear the bear computer is tard proof

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

Excuse me, but this encourages e-waste
If you break a PC, try to fix it (it might be easy if its just a software problem)

thats retarded

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computers-and-internet

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/ap-computer-science-principles

Nuh-uh, you're retarded.

 

[ItsTheShitt]

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computers-and-internet

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/ap-computer-science-principles

Nuh-uh, you're retarded.

whatever but khan academy is boring as fuck

 

[round robin]

Stop all the downloadin

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

By diving in. Schooling can only do so much. Googling the error and playing around with the operating systems is the best way. Eventually it will start coming together.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I haven't been into programming or messing with computers for years, but I learned literally everything by using various websites and just fucking around on my own starting at age 11. If you have a genuine curiosity, you'll find it fun and soak up everything you can get your hands on.

If you just want to learn due to the Reddit meme of 'learn programming bro, I used to be a garbage man now I make 6 figs' then you'll get bored and quit.

I realised at age 16 I found computers boring as fuck, and wasn't interested beyond what I needed to know. That, and sitting at a desk in front of a monitor for 9 hours a day for the rest of my life inspired nothing short of suicide.

 

[Cow Poly]

When I had my first tech internship I asked a senior tech, “So what do you do when someone tells you their computer doesn’t work?”
“I just reboot it,” he said.
Turns out this fixes 96 percent of hardware & software issues in the field.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Everyone saying "Google it" is correct. The next time you have something you want to do on your computer but you don't know how, just Google around and see what people suggest to do. Do that enough and often, and you'll be your family's unpaid, unappreciated "computer guy" in no time.

I hear the bear computer is tard proof

Is that so? Then explain this.

 

[seri0us]

I don't know, I was just kind of born with it