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Best way to start learning programming (non-classroom)

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November 15, 2013 12:40:53 PM

I am on 12th grade and college is around the corner and I want to start familiarizing myself with programming. I want to start learning how to do it and I know there are a couple of books but I don't know witch language to choose first so I wanted you guys to help me and tell me the best way to go for a rookie.

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November 15, 2013 1:26:41 PM

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January 23, 2014 10:11:40 PM

I would suggest trying out on an easy, and laid back, web programming language. I would suggest PHP, or Javascript, as they're both very good starting points (in my opinion). The language is very laid back, and it should be fairly easy to pick up basic programming concepts. They'll set you up nicely to break into a stricter language like C#, or Java.

Take a look at XAMPP. It'll give you a very nice local environment for easy testing, and execution, of your PHP/Javascript snippets.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Along with that, W3Schools have a lot of great tutorials, and documentation, on everything web based.

http://www.W3Schools.com
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October 6, 2014 10:05:42 AM

Java is a good starting point as it is widly used and pretty easy to learn.
Personally I like learneroo.com
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October 6, 2014 1:44:40 PM

CarboTrap said:
I am on 12th grade and college is around the corner and I want to start familiarizing myself with programming. I want to start learning how to do it and I know there are a couple of books but I don't know witch language to choose first so I wanted you guys to help me and tell me the best way to go for a rookie.


Start with Visual BASIC, and then move on to C
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October 16, 2014 9:21:09 PM

Don't start with Java, I did and it is hard to learn, and a slow language which is being phased out slowly, what I would recommend you do is learn PHP (or Python) first, then learn C++, a great site to learn these off is w3schools.com. (http://www.w3schools.in/cplusplus/intro/ and http://www.w3schools.in/category/php/)
Remember, you can learn Java if you want to but I found PHP had more in common with C++
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October 17, 2014 6:21:24 PM

By the way, Java is way more easier than C++, and if you want to learn an easy language before C++ you should try the C as the C++ is based on it.
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