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To: Captain Beyond
If one wanted to start to learn computer programing what would be the best language to start with to build a foundation for learning how to write programs?

Python hands down. It is clear and doesn't get in the way, and doesn't saddle you with a bunch of concepts before you write your first line of code. The concepts you learn with Python are applicable to every major programming language you may want to move to in the future.

34 posted on 07/06/2009 2:57:27 PM PDT by dan1123 (Liberals sell it as "speech which is hateful" but it's really "speech I hate".)
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To: dan1123

Thanks for the link Dan1123 it is much appericated. :)

I will look at Python, VB, and C++ to start out with. Once again thanks for the advice.


42 posted on 07/06/2009 9:33:53 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: dan1123; Captain Beyond
doesn't saddle you with a bunch of concepts before you write your first line of code

There's the problem with the young'uns these days. They want to sit down and learn a programming language before they actually learn how to program.

45 posted on 07/07/2009 7:03:07 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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