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June 25, 2014 4:54:49 AM

I am wanting to learn about computer programming and hopefully learn a coding language. I was hoping someone could guide me in the right direction as to which is the best language to start off with & where is the best place to start learning ? Is it easy to just pick up a book or learn from a web tutorial or something I would need to attend a college or something? As I say I'm new to this whole thing and need some guidance to get me on track. Thank you in advance.

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June 25, 2014 4:58:51 AM

What do you want to be able to do with the programming language?
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June 25, 2014 5:03:50 AM

I was aiming at eventually doing website design or something along those lines .
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June 25, 2014 5:06:21 AM

And what platform? Linux? Windows? (for both the web server and your development)
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June 25, 2014 5:09:04 AM

Windows
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June 25, 2014 5:16:40 AM

Uh ... I guess stick with C# / ASP.NET.
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June 25, 2014 5:22:32 AM

Apologies if I seem naive in this area, I mean would a different platform be better to use or start with ? Should I start with something else before going to web design as to learn the basics? Again I'm sorry if any of this is perhaps elementary.
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June 25, 2014 5:24:24 AM

Yeah c# and asp.net would be a good choice. Get yourself a copy of Visual studio, there's no shortage of tutorials on the web to get you up and running.
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June 25, 2014 5:27:47 AM

You can play around with creating windows form applications using c# before looking at web stuff.
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June 25, 2014 6:36:08 AM

kendockety said:
Apologies if I seem naive in this area, I mean would a different platform be better to use or start with ? Should I start with something else before going to web design as to learn the basics? Again I'm sorry if any of this is perhaps elementary.

Linux would have more options. Windows is rather limited and is arguably the worst platform for programming development.
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June 25, 2014 6:52:44 AM

So you're suggesting that someone completely new to programming starts with Linux ??? That's a tough introduction......
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June 25, 2014 8:03:10 AM

For development? Yes. There are more language options available outside of C# / ASP.NET.
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June 30, 2014 2:55:59 AM

I think you should start with C++ if you are completely blank about programming. once you get familiar with how to use the concepts, then you can start with c#.net or c# asp.net
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June 30, 2014 3:06:51 AM

kendockety said:
I was aiming at eventually doing website design or something along those lines .

If thats what you want to do, then the main tools of the trade are HTML, Javascript, PHP and a LAMP server.


The languages vb, c#, c++ etc are for stand alone application development and even games.
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July 10, 2014 3:47:36 PM

I think Python is a good language to start out in. It is very simple. From there, you can get into other more powerful languages like C++ or Java.
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