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Hey everyone. I was wondering what would be the best language for a beginner to learn first. Can anyone help me decide between C++, Visual Basic, Actionscript 3.0, or python? Thanks in advanced!
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Posted 04 October 2011 - 09:49 AM
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It depends on what you want to do. Arguments can be made for any of them. Arguments can be made against any of them.
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Posted 04 October 2011 - 05:36 PM
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Hey Alex... I think I have some superior advice for you
As someone who spent 3 years wanting to program.. asking similar questions to this... I'll tell you what ended up happening..
I found a book that taught me how to program.. the truth is programming is all the same for every language basically.. only syntax differs for the most part
So my advice is learn how to program.. and the way I did it was with "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science"
python was really simple.. and the cool part is its very powerful language (atleast many argue)
the thing about this book is after I read it I was able to program in every language.. I quickly went to c,c++,java,some other weird things to make stock trading programs..
anyways thats my two cents..
thats my story.. I hope you find the book useful as well... I bought atleast 5 different books on java,c++, blah blah... they were so confusing and talked about syntax and not programming in my opinion
anyways this book is why I don't got to class (i'm a college student) and I still get A's on the tests and projects.. I also learned assembler lately.. doing websites for fun and money in spare time.. and programming is probably the only good thing I'm at in life now :p
hope that helps.. just wanted to save you from the confusion.. when you enter programming you feel like your gonna have to learn one language and you might be wasting time not learning another.. but once you learn to program you know them all.. minus slight syntax differences.. you will see.. its not like a language as in spanish.. french.. etc.. computer languages are much simpler IMHO
As someone who spent 3 years wanting to program.. asking similar questions to this... I'll tell you what ended up happening..
I found a book that taught me how to program.. the truth is programming is all the same for every language basically.. only syntax differs for the most part
So my advice is learn how to program.. and the way I did it was with "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science"
python was really simple.. and the cool part is its very powerful language (atleast many argue)
the thing about this book is after I read it I was able to program in every language.. I quickly went to c,c++,java,some other weird things to make stock trading programs..
anyways thats my two cents..
thats my story.. I hope you find the book useful as well... I bought atleast 5 different books on java,c++, blah blah... they were so confusing and talked about syntax and not programming in my opinion
anyways this book is why I don't got to class (i'm a college student) and I still get A's on the tests and projects.. I also learned assembler lately.. doing websites for fun and money in spare time.. and programming is probably the only good thing I'm at in life now :p
hope that helps.. just wanted to save you from the confusion.. when you enter programming you feel like your gonna have to learn one language and you might be wasting time not learning another.. but once you learn to program you know them all.. minus slight syntax differences.. you will see.. its not like a language as in spanish.. french.. etc.. computer languages are much simpler IMHO
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Posted 04 October 2011 - 07:08 PM
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pally98 said:
Hey Alex... I think I have some superior advice for you
As someone who spent 3 years wanting to program.. asking similar questions to this... I'll tell you what ended up happening..
I found a book that taught me how to program.. the truth is programming is all the same for every language basically.. only syntax differs for the most part
So my advice is learn how to program.. and the way I did it was with "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science"
python was really simple.. and the cool part is its very powerful language (atleast many argue)
the thing about this book is after I read it I was able to program in every language.. I quickly went to c,c++,java,some other weird things to make stock trading programs..
anyways thats my two cents..
thats my story.. I hope you find the book useful as well... I bought atleast 5 different books on java,c++, blah blah... they were so confusing and talked about syntax and not programming in my opinion
anyways this book is why I don't got to class (i'm a college student) and I still get A's on the tests and projects.. I also learned assembler lately.. doing websites for fun and money in spare time.. and programming is probably the only good thing I'm at in life now :p
hope that helps.. just wanted to save you from the confusion.. when you enter programming you feel like your gonna have to learn one language and you might be wasting time not learning another.. but once you learn to program you know them all.. minus slight syntax differences.. you will see.. its not like a language as in spanish.. french.. etc.. computer languages are much simpler IMHO
As someone who spent 3 years wanting to program.. asking similar questions to this... I'll tell you what ended up happening..
I found a book that taught me how to program.. the truth is programming is all the same for every language basically.. only syntax differs for the most part
So my advice is learn how to program.. and the way I did it was with "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science"
python was really simple.. and the cool part is its very powerful language (atleast many argue)
the thing about this book is after I read it I was able to program in every language.. I quickly went to c,c++,java,some other weird things to make stock trading programs..
anyways thats my two cents..
thats my story.. I hope you find the book useful as well... I bought atleast 5 different books on java,c++, blah blah... they were so confusing and talked about syntax and not programming in my opinion
anyways this book is why I don't got to class (i'm a college student) and I still get A's on the tests and projects.. I also learned assembler lately.. doing websites for fun and money in spare time.. and programming is probably the only good thing I'm at in life now :p
hope that helps.. just wanted to save you from the confusion.. when you enter programming you feel like your gonna have to learn one language and you might be wasting time not learning another.. but once you learn to program you know them all.. minus slight syntax differences.. you will see.. its not like a language as in spanish.. french.. etc.. computer languages are much simpler IMHO
Woah, Thanks a lot! I might look into the book you had. Thanks for all your help!
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Posted 05 October 2011 - 04:21 PM
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alexd953 said:
Woah, Thanks a lot! I might look into the book you had. Thanks for all your help!
Yeah no problem.. when you learn programming if your experience is anything like mine.. then its going to require a little bit of a push to get through the learning experience
because all the programs you do in the beginning are going to be centered around simple concepts.. in other words boring programs
best advice I can give is push though it.. and you will get to the very awesome programs shortly after you get over the hill
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