Programming realated suggestions for 1st year students ?

 Once you join your college you should start doing programming immediately,lots of students do this mistake by start doing coding in later 3rd or 4th year when companies start visiting campus ,but at that time you have lots of other things to do along with coding like you need to prepare your CS fundamentals(Operating System,DBMS,networking),so you dont give your full potential at that time.It should better if you start as early as you can.

Lets talk about what we should do first.

• Start it by choosing a Programming Language C++,java or python.
• Start Learning  their basics ,oops concept.
• After that Start learning basic Data structures like Array,Linked List,Stack,Queue,Graph,Tree etc.
• Start solving Competitive Problems from hackerrank,hackerearth,codechef etc.

Along with coding you should give your focus on CS fundamentals subject also,it will help you to crack interviews without any extra preparation.

So yes,These some tips for 1st year students,i hope it will help you,and Best of Luck for you future.