C#•4mo ago

How long does it take to learn C# from scratch?

During my studies of computer science I’m expected to learn C# in order to use for a project I’ll start making later on this year, I’ve only had experience with the programming language python. Considering I have a reasonable amount of free time I want to be able to master C# and some other programming languages to see where it can take me.

Angius•9/19/25, 8:59 PM

Between 3 days and 3 months

Angius•9/19/25, 8:59 PM

Sometimes 3 hours or 3 years

Angius•9/19/25, 8:59 PM

Always 3 of something, oddly enough

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:01 PM

lol

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:01 PM

So how long did it take u to get decent at it?

Angius•9/19/25, 9:02 PM

Huh... In college, within a semester or so, I went from zero C# knowledge to making basic WPF applications (mock car dealership management, calculator, etc)

Angius•9/19/25, 9:02 PM

I did have background in PHP and a few semesters of C++ behind by that time, though

Angius•9/19/25, 9:03 PM

And a semester or two of Java

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:03 PM

I’ve only ever done python at a gcse level

Angius•9/19/25, 9:03 PM

Truth is, it really depends person to person

Angius•9/19/25, 9:03 PM

To some, say, the OOP model will just click

Angius•9/19/25, 9:03 PM

Some other people will be bashing their head into the wall trying to understand it

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:04 PM

Makes sense

Angius•9/19/25, 9:04 PM

In this server, we've seen the whole entire spectrum lmao

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:04 PM

Lmao

Angius•9/19/25, 9:04 PM

From people who just go "ooooh, gotcha, so like that?" and just get it, to people who can't remember for weeks that C# is case-sensitive

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:05 PM

Not to sound arrogant or anything but I feel like with the right help I should be able to grasp things quickly. I’m quite academically inclined

Angius•9/19/25, 9:05 PM

Just give it a shot and you'll be able to estimate how well the language sits with you :shrug:

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:06 PM

I’ve learnt up to about nested loops

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:06 PM

So far it seems ok

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:06 PM

The only annoying thing is remembering to use a ; at the end of each line

Angius•9/19/25, 9:07 PM

Alas, no getting around this one

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:11 PM

Do u ever use java or c++ for projects or do u mainly like to use C#?

Angius•9/19/25, 9:16 PM

C++ only with Unreal Engine, Java I haven't used in years

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:25 PM

Last thing I wanted to ask was how did u get into doing projects and things like that?

Angius•9/19/25, 9:41 PM

Well, I don't know how you got into doing projects, but I simply saw something that didn't exist, something I wanted to exist regardless, and so I had to make it exist

Angius•9/19/25, 9:42 PM

Like, "I wish there was a video player that stays always on top, has no borders or chrome to speak of, and can be dragged around freely"

Angius•9/19/25, 9:42 PM

And boom: https://github.com/Atulin/FramelessPlayer

Angius•9/19/25, 9:42 PM

I made it

AAngius Like, "I wish there was a video player that stays always on top, has no borders ...

yodaOP•9/19/25, 9:43 PM

Cool mb was a typo lmao

deprecatio•9/20/25, 3:28 PM

to me it took few months, but i already knew vb net

Batuhan•9/21/25, 8:33 AM

I have been using it nearly 3 years (professianlly 2) and can say i bearly know c#

yodaOP•9/21/25, 12:23 PM

Fayoka•9/21/25, 4:36 PM

so far i am 2 years into it, and feel like i might know half, more likely about 40 %

Jimmacle•9/21/25, 6:43 PM

if you think you know 40% you probably know less than that, there is more to the ecosystem than any one person could ever learn depending on how deep you go

JJimmacle if you think you know 40% you probably know less than that, there is more to the...

Fayoka•9/21/25, 7:21 PM

true dat, it's honestly impossible to say how much you know, or ever know it all, but I do think I reached a point, or very close to where I can understanad everything/ will find everything in need

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