[blackeagle]

@Slarek i agree with that article but with all their mess you could learn something from the videos !! well for me i study java at uni and i just watch some videos on youtube well if that guy that made the video made an error most of the time i realize that he made something wrong here and that will let me know that ive understood well at class

[Slarek]

@Slarek i agree with that article but with all their mess you could learn something from the videos !! well for me i study java at uni and i just watch some videos on youtube well if that guy that made the video made an error most of the time i realize that he made something wrong here and that will let me know that ive understood well at class

But for beginner (I think OP is with C) watching a video which has bad programming practice will cause damage.
Because beginner doesn't know that the guy who made the video had made a mistake.

[blackeagle]

@Slarek well i agree but not all the videos have mistakes but again as u said a beginner couldn't realize if he made a mistake or no !! so i agree !!

[Deque]

Hello bh4l.

First off I have a talk for you that you should see: http://www.hackcommunity.com/Thread-Vide...n-anything

I think 4 hours is too much if you don't enjoy it.
Don't be so hard on yourself. You can as well practice one hour a day, but regularly and it will benefit you more than doing 4 hours or more, but not for long. Or to say it so:
Doing 1 hour every day for a month benefits you more than 4 hours a day for a week.
Of course you can do more if you enjoy it, but it seemed to me that you don't atm.

Sleep is very important to learn stuff, so my second recommendation is: Get enough sleep. I emphazise this, because lots of young people and especially computer philes tend to stay awake, drink lots of coffee and don't sleep enough. But it is proven that sleep is required for letting the stuff you learned stick in your mind, which is also a reason for the regular learning benefit over binge learning.

For breaks you have to listen to your body. Do you feel tired and is it hard to concentrate? Take a break and do something else (don't take the break doing stuff on the computer again).

Don't combine learning C with other languages. It will confuse you a lot, because languages are often similar and that will interfere with the stuff you try to learn (the mind gets conflicting information, so it doesn't save the info). Learn one language at a time. In your case C.

If you feel confident enough try to make projects you are interested in a lot. Write a program you would like to write and that is fun to write. You will get a lot of motivation by choosing something that interests you. Of course you will need an understanding about the very basics before you can start own projects.
It also doesn't matter if you have to look up information a lot at first, that is completely normal. You will also find yourself copying code from others to solve certain tasks. That is ok as well as long as you also care to understand what the piece does that you copied.

[blackeagle]

@bh4l well u should do what @Deque told you she's the most experienced about programing around here so do as she tells you and u'll be fine