Anyone know where I can begin to teach myself programming?

[Uninverted]

Originally Posted by G_Morgan

Are there any decent frameworks or web libraries written in Lisp?

None that I know of. The suggestion was mostly a joke at the fact that both Lisp and my last post had a lot of ()s.

[Chinmoy]

first check your focus.if it is on the core programming side or web development.if you want to go for cere software development the c,c++,java or any compiler based language will do.if you want to go fro proper application development the go for an interpreter based language like visualbasic,delphi,python,ruby.python and ruby offer multi functionalities.if you want to go for web development the go for php,javascript,any scripting language,try the ruby on rails platform..css and php are a must.

[PascalPro]

I really like Pascal. It was my first language. From there I would learn C#. If you need any help with code just get in contact with me and I should be able to answer any questions you might have with Pascal or C#.

[Martin_kp]

Hey Reiz45, could you upload your 'HTML webpage'?

[chili5]

I would spend time getting good with HTML and then move on to CSS and eventually JavaScript.

[Xav]

I agree - (X)HTML is the basis of web design. After that, CSS is hardly a language, and you can have it done automatically in certain web design software, but it's handy to know. Then, JavaScript is quite similar to C# and Java. Finally, you might want to make your pages dynamic by learning either PHP or ASP.

[chili5]

I would just go with XHTML, it's hard to switch from HTML to XHTML at least in my opinion.

After you learn CSS and JavaScript, I would learn PHP it's way faster than ASP and JSP.

[Xav]

And PHP is easier than ASP. JavaScript is the fastest, however, as it runs straight from the browser, and not from the web server.

[chili5]

True PHP is easier.

If you learn PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS you can mostly make any kind of web site you want.

For desktop programming some good languages are:

lisp
python
java
c#
c++

[G_Morgan]

I don't know if I'd recommend Lisp for desktop programming. Doesn't really have the libraries and delivery of applications isn't simple.

I've recently been playing with Scala which is functional like Lisp (though doesn't have Lisp macros, what does) but runs on the JVM and can use and extend all Java classes.

Seems quite nice. It doesn't lose all that much in terms of performance thanks to type inference.