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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:29 pm
by Gidan
Tossica wrote:I suggest PASCAL, Fortran and COBOL.
I miss those days
I mess around with PHP alot, though having a strong c++ background helped that.
Not a personal fan of perl but thats just me. I hate java with a passion.
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:34 pm
by Tikker
Lyion wrote:Python, Perl, Shell Scripting, and basic Java are better if you are looking to be productive and to actually learn about programming. Those are much better starting places. They are easy to learn and have many more resources.
I'd highly recommend downloading Python and starting with it. You can use it on Windows or Unix. There is a wealth of examples of code out there that makes sense, unlike VB and windows and your initial expenditure is zero.
C++ is a terrible place to start, in my opinion. VB is ok if you have the software and want to code solely small high level things just for windows. I wouldn't recommend either to start, personally and I've been writing code for 20 years. Windows programmers do not share, and the examples and content are not as constructive to someone learning
In regards to SQL, the best way to learn it is to setup a small database on mysql and use it. SQL is extremely simple and not really a good 'programming' language , per se.
IM me for more Martrae.
Lyion for the win here
I'd agree with him about 100% on his assessment
PERL in particular is a great language to know, as it's very versatile, and you can make it do things, the way that make sense to you
(ie, for every coding goal, there's probably 5 to 10 diff't ways you could code it)