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[Mash]

Hello everyone. I know the first question on all of your minds; yes, I really am as uncreative as the thread title suggests.

Moving on;

My name is Mac and I'm a fresh high school graduate looking to step into the field of computer science and programming. I have little to no experience with programming, though I did participate on some minor programming tutorials about C where I just ran a few lines of code through a shabby compiler and played around with command prompt.

I'll be frankly honest when I say that this forum will mostly be used as a reference tool until I'm capable of actually participating in the thread discussions. I'm still trying to figure out which language I want to start stepping into. I'd also like to know, in your personal opinions, whether or not leaning a second language is nearly as brain-frying as learning the first.

Thanks for your time, and I hope my attention span lasts long enough for me to become proficient enough in a language to understand half the crap anyone says on here.

Au Revoir!

P.S. I don't speak french.

[fread]

Welcome aboard Mac. When you learn to program, learning new languages won't be that difficult.

[Mash]

fread said:

Welcome aboard Mac. When you learn to program, learning new languages won't be that difficult.

Thank you.

That's good to hear. I was thinking of starting off with a children's learning program to get the firmest foundation. Memorizing lines of code is all fine and dandy, but it's rather pointless if I don't understand why the program executes the way it does.

[fread]

If its any consolation i saw the infamous Hello World program at age 22 and starting coding thereafter.

[Mash]

I actually just now found a program called 'HacketyHack'. Seems to be an absolute beginner tutorial using the Ruby programming langauge. It seems to be a good place to start, and gives fairly clear instructions. I'm gonna start. there. I tried with C first, and it just evolved too fast. I couldn't keep up.

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard!

[Alexander]

It is always a good idea to get an interest with simple languages, scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Lua, PHP) orient around tasks. Way back when BASIC was the thing, then Visual BASIC, that Ruby thing looks nice for beginners.

After learning C I have found scripting languages awfully sugary.