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how to learn to program
Replies: 11 — Last Post Sep. 6, 2008 6:18pm by telomere13
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I just wanted to know how everybody here learned to program.  I want to start to get into it, I'm also taking a class next semester in school, and I want to know any tips and good books or other ways to learn.
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books and random hacking around.

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If it's Java, drop out.

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School.

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It's actually part of my major in information systems, I haven't tried yet though, my first class in it will be next next spring, I'm kinda excited.

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Buy the Python manual. Even though its free online its worth it.

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For me at school, I have to do a C++ and VB course in my program.

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since i'm studying computer science ; programming & algorithmic is one of the main & hardest subject ! all you need is to be LOGICAL !

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Be logical and keep practicing.

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Here is what I suggest on starting with

C++ - Widely used, a good entry into many other languages

C#/Java - Very friendly and approachable.

Python - Will give you respect as a programmer but isn't really job friendly unless you have a good academic background. Still fun to learn.

Perl - Very handy for small projects, good overall language to know.

Ruby on Rails - Very powerful, very easy. Still in its infant stages and not as much freedom as other languages; it is still bleeding edge to industry standards and is mainly used for less serious side projects.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - Big for smaller businesses building ecommerce based websites (and many other things) but big businesses stick to other more powerful languages.

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I learnt Pascal for 6 months
But it wasn't until I played around some Visual Basic 6 that I considered myself to really be able to program.
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Quote: from xXDarkened ShAdowsXx at 2:07 am on June 13, 2008
If it's Java, drop out.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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