To become a programmer asks for a lot of work, a lot of time in groups and in a lab. It is always better when there is an instructor who is guiding the student along the road to becoming a programmer, but not because it is impossible to learn by oneself.
Tirana Center of Technology offers programming courses based on  C++, JAVA, (database) MS SQL Server, ASP.NET; all of these courses last nine weeks and focus only on the practice.
Instructors have worked in various lines of work, and have gained much knowledge from each. They teach through practice, a method that has been approved and liked by previous students.

Programming takes a long time to learn, because it begins at C++, the base of programming, and then continues into Java, which is more about the abstract world. After working with and gaining the necessary practice from these two base languages, it becomes a lot easier to learn WEB or MOBILE programming. In these two programming types are also found most of the job opportunities in Albania and throughout the rest of the world. Both of these language are interlinked with database (eg. MS SQL, MYsql, Oracle etc.). These two languages need also other languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.
Therefore, to become a skilled programmer, is is necessary to practice and to begin with a solid base of language understanding.