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04-25-2008, 10:39 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Suffolk, VA Posts: 4,020
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Well i know lots and lots about computer hardware and winXP but i would like to start programing. i would like to know what lauange should i start on as a good beginners lauange. | 
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04-25-2008, 11:31 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maine Posts: 3,691
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Java is a good language to start with.
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04-25-2008, 11:33 PM
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01001100011011110110110 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 2,002
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Java, Python, even something really simple like Basic is good.
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04-27-2008, 08:33 AM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,219
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Yeah, Java isn't too bad to start off with.
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04-30-2008, 05:08 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 5,484
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Turing  | |
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04-30-2008, 07:25 PM
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I can't brain today Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 311
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Java is good but my first language was C++ which I learnt alot from and also is very easy to transfer knowledge from C++ to other languages
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05-04-2008, 10:50 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,522
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Just to do a "hello world" sample in Java, you need to know like classes! I'd start with C... Or something like Turing or QBasic..
The languages I learnt are in this order:
QBasic, C, C++, Turing (for school), Java, assembly, C# ( that's when it came out)
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05-05-2008, 12:47 AM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,315
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i started learning some python a few months ago...it was pretty easy to catch on. I found it boring though.
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05-05-2008, 02:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,985
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Java is not too bad. It sucked at first because our text book assumed you were familiar with the basics... but only one or two were. Object-oriented programming is way different from the BASIC programs I used to write.
If you are interested in JAVA, I can upload a couple of JAVA books I downloaded sometime (like to RapidShare).
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05-05-2008, 05:38 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 9
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Python or C/C++ would be my suggestions. Python is really simple, and C/C++ are similar (at least syntactically) to many other languages, like Java.
I would imagine that Java would be difficult to learn as a first language, because it is so object-oriented. C++ programs can be written without a single class or even struct, and when you are ready, you can learn about OOP with a familiar syntax.
The order I learned was QBasic (some), HTML (helps you understand how the computer interprets things), C, C++, Java, Python, sh/bash/tcsh/etc., awk, sed, perl.
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