Guest blackorchid666 Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 im new to prograhming of all sorts and need help from ground up how do i start? :unsure: [Moved from Everything Linux - arctic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 I'd say first of all you need to buy some books that explain the programming language that you want to master (e.g. C++). The bigger book stores usually have tons of useful programming-guides available. P.S.: Welcome aboard. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 First you need to figure out what you want to do. Is there a particular language you want to learn? Is there a particular task you want to be able to do or a particular kind of program you want to write? There are boatloads and boatloads of languages out there, very different from each other, so before you start buying books you should figure out which language you want to start with. For example: Creating static web pages (not really programming) - HTML, CSS Creating dynamic web pages (client side) - Javascript, Flash, Java Creating dynamic web pages (server side) - PHP, Perl, Ruby, Sql Command line tools - bash scripting, Perl, Sed Guis, Games - Java, C++, Perl Just learning programming - Basic, Pascal, C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Don't forget the engineer's first choice fortran B) Oh and welcome to the board blackorchid666. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Then there's Cobol :mellow: . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Don't forget the engineer's first choice fortran B) Then there's Cobol :mellow: No, I didn't forget either of those! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Scheme is a language i had some fun learning, very different from the common ones like C or Java. If you want to learn the programming basics - try Pascal or a more modern C. Java can be a little confusing for a beginner. You can try googling for some online C trainers (i know there are plenty of them out there...) Personally, i prefer to learn with a good book, i don't like learning from a screen. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 If learning on Linux, I might suggest playing around with bash scripting first...an interpreted language. Then maybe move on to dabble in C, a lower-level compiled language (lower-level does not equal easier, just that you can more closely interact with the operating system), then maybe php (not just for web anymore ;)), etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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