I'm a complete newbie..not a lamer, a newbie. I've been doing my homework
and was wondering what was the most easy or most comprehensible language to learn.
P.S. Love this site!!!
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I'm a complete newbie..not a lamer, a newbie. I've been doing my homework
and was wondering what was the most easy or most comprehensible language to learn.
P.S. Love this site!!!
Java shouldn´t be so hard to learn. It was proactive who posted this thread a couple of days ago. It´s a great and easy way of learning the basics.
By far one of the easiest IMO is HTML. As far as middle of the road and more usefull down the road I have found that C and/or C++ are easy compared to others and will have more of a benifitt for you later on. Not Vicual Basic, but VB Scripting or Java Scripting are handy as well. For the long term though I would go with the C launguages.
Here are some links for you:
http://www.cyberdiem.com/vin/learn.html
Many links to documents on C++.
http://www.freewarehome.com/Programming/Tutors_t.html
A few tutorials on various programing lang. As well, a number of freeware programs to get you started.
http://www.glenmccl.com/tutor.htm
Good reference material for C++.
http://www.121-java-script-tutorials.com/
A good place to start for Java Script.
http://www.codebeach.com/index.asp?T...&CategoryID=11
Links to VB Help.
I hope this helps you. Just browse and decide for yourself what you like and have at it.
:D
Hmm, you might wanna be a little more specific about your goals squall75.
Do you want to make little program, scipts or homepages?
well for me the easiest one was HTML.. then next would be Visual Basic.. then im now curretly playing around with C++... hehehe
IMO apart from the online information your can find i found a good range of books to get started with is from a publisher called sams they do a teach yourself in 24 hours/21 days range of books. Im currenty starting C++ with their teach yourself C++ in 21 days, IMO they are a good easy read and a nice why to start and they are broken down into sections nicely. They cover a large range of computer topics outside of programing as well. Also if you like me and travel alot they are not too bad to put in a bag and have a read when you havent got computer access. Hope that helps as not directly realated to your question but im a newbi too perhaps a little too new but new none the less.
hehe oh yeah, thanks for reminding me Kindred69, i also read a tutorial online its for C++..
the url is :http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/
its a really good tutorial.. i have read the Teach Yourself C++ In 21 Days but i find the Online C++ Tutorial more easier to understand.. but it all depends on us.. some find the 21 days easier some dont.. so yeah.. hehe ur choice really.. and ermm for HTML tutorials you can find HEAPS if u go and search for em in google.com and i think Visual Basic also have some..
IMHO Its impossible to learn any programming language in 21 days or 24 hours or whatever the book says.... I think you should start out with a language thats not so hard..... Just go to http://code.box.sk/ and check out the programming languages they have there (look under the pull-down menu) ;)
Hello Squal75!
Good day to you! Aside from the good post from the others. I advised you to check this site: www. programmersheaven.com. It has a good archive of tutorials as well as a page containing related links. By doing so, you can have an overview of the different programming languages :). That can help you decide as to which path to take.
Have fun!!! A blessed day to all :D
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Thanx alot to everyone who to the time to help me out. I truely appriate it!
I can't believe nobody mentioned PERL
IMHO these are the programming languages every comp enthusiast should learn: DHTML,perl,C,C++,php,
asm,java and javascript.
After you learn one language you should be able to learn another within 1 week.Once you know 1 the others
should be easier.For me once I learned C,C++ was very easy.Basically the same.
Goodluck.
Crimina1
IMHO,I would say..........(even if I'm going to be attacked by all u C lovers out there),ASM(I learned ASM first)
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IMHO,I would say..........(even if I'm going to be attacked by all u C lovers out there),ASM(I learned ASM first)
I agree ...although it's not the easiest to learn you gain a great deal of low level knowledge.
There's a decent tutorial here:
http://www.bitafterbit.com/english/a...sic02/asm.html
This link also has Html,Java and C++ tutorials.....so take your pick and ENJOY ;)
I think C is best language for learn to programming, because it'e easy and had powerful instruments like pointers etc...
ASM is most powerful, but is linked to architecture (anyway you must learn it).
Visual Basic is very easy but your programs aren't portable to others OS different from windows.
C++ and Java regards you if you're interested to oriented object programming.
I don't know lisp and perl : (
HTML is cake start with that...
:borg:
System_Overload
c is probably the best.
i find C++ to be easiest, but then again i dont really think like many other people... i dont seem to be able to program procedurally...just Object Oriented...
on a side note, anyone know of a good OOP language other than C++?
In high school, my teacher started with c and the second half was c++. Mixing them didn't work to great for me, so I suggest get a firm grip on c before c++ because I found c++ to be a totally different beast.
remember though... programming that you learn in school, (at least in my experience) is NOTHING like real programming
Aren't Perl and HTML just scripting languages? I began with Qbasic since it comes (came) with every computer. It's very easy. Visual Basic is probably easiest for Windows. Robot Battle (www.robotbattle.com) also has got it's own programming(/scripting) language and it's also fun to play with it. :)
Personally, I'll go for C or Perl. C++ has quite a good deal of 'gizmos' while C is still used to make a kernel module and, most of all, is what Linux was programmed with. Perl is a powerful scripting language. It was created by a sysadmin who wanted to make daily tasks easier. It has some powerful features and is usually used in web-programming (using cgi) and for most scripts such as a port scanner or a log analyzer. If you are more web-oriented, take Perl. Else, get on with C.
I learned ASM from a tutorial also...It didn't seem too hard!(with my father being an ASM programmer and all),I guess C isn't bad(it's widely used),but overall I prefer ASM
I have to agree with you C guys. C and C++ gives the best understanding for programming fundamentals. Allthough it takes several years to get to know the ins and outs of C++, no matter what people tell you.
If you're on *ix I suggest you take a look at Perl and Java as well. If your on Windows, have a look at Visual Basic.NET or C#, both of which require the .NET runtime.
It sort of scares me that several of you say that the easiest programming language is HTML.
HTML is a markup language and *has absolutely nothing to do with programming*. It lacks every fundamental aspect of programming such as looping, conditional statements or even variables.
HTML is a set of SGML-compatible tags used to build webpages.
JavaScript and VBScript aren't programming languages either, though they come quite close. They are scripting languages and there is a huge difference. For example it is impossible to build stand-alone programs with them and they don't compile.
Cheers,
For me the best language to start with is Pascal because it was primarily created to teach people the basics of programming so it introduces alot of important concepts used in other languages in a simple manner.
That said if you would prefer to learn a useful language (hardly nobody uses Pascal for serious programming) I would suggest C, as it too is relatively simple. A very readable tutorial for C can be found here .
I agree with the other users that said that you can't learn a language in 24 hours, 21 days etc. You could be programming your whole life in a language and still never master the language (can anybody out there really say they have mastered their native tongue? I certainally haven't mastered English) but you can get a good grasp of the basics in a month or two depending on how much time you spend at it.
i started off with a whole bunch of usefull/useless programming language : basic/ logo/vb
but at the univ i started on asm and that is the **** ... anyways it is defenitevely not the easiet to learn from.... need understanding of too many concepts first: binary algebra, moor's law, architecture of the cpu, sync/ async tx&rx system number ...
choosing a first lang depands on your end goal... programing just to know how go with c or c++...
or select something that's directly applyed in your field.
for me, i use to do a lot of dsp on microp, the first c program could not be run cause the buffer was too small and the compiller bad.... thus i went to hardcore asm. the worst also about asm it that it is different to each platform... and cpu architecture....
so if you want some asm help let me know i'll help you out ...