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Posted 26 January 2010 - 03:26 PM

Firstly, I know next to nothing about programming, and the closest to it I've come is messing with .pk3 files.

So, recently, I've decided I want to dedicate myself to a long-term personal project, and I was hoping for something I could use more often than trying to teach myself a language (because I would need to use it often to actually learn/remember it), so I decided I wanted to learn a programming language, so I could manage to build a virus to destroy the intarwub. Well, no, actually, but it sounds good.

I know of a plethora of programming languages, ranging from the simple to the advanced, but I really don't know where to start. I could go with something old-school, like C, or I could even try to work with Java. I'm incredibly undecided, so I come to you, wondering if you know anything of programming languages, and have an idea of what I should sit down with and try to learn. I have the resources, I just need a direction.
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Posted 27 January 2010 - 12:03 AM

HTML, C++, and Java are some of the basic ones that you should know.
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Posted 27 January 2010 - 03:27 AM

View PostDr. House, on 26 January 2010 - 04:03 PM, said:

HTML, C++, and Java are some of the basic ones that you should know.

HTML, as its name means HyperText Markup Language, isn't really a programming language. It's a markup language. It's not used for programming. A great example here is that I can't use HTML to write a code to find the square root of sixteen. Likewise, I can't use Python or C to build a website.

I was thinking, if I was gonna go for C++, I'd start with C, and then make the transition once I'm familiar with the old version. As for Java, I don't really know if I want to work with that one. From most of the things I've seen done in Java, it seems like there's not a whole lot of room for advancement. I've never seen anything of a really impressive nature done in Java. Prove me wrong, please, but that's just my observation.

I'm thinking of C, primarily, here, but if you can give me any info about different programming languages, I'd love to take a look. And yes, I realize I did just nay-say all your ideas, but I did what research I could with Wikipedia and about fifteen minutes. Not that that really says much, but meh.
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Posted 12 February 2010 - 03:05 PM

Try pascal, the original programming language that gave birth to Delphi, C++, Python and etc.
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Posted 12 February 2010 - 10:16 PM

View PostS.Laughter, on 12 February 2010 - 07:05 AM, said:

Try pascal, the original programming language that gave birth to Delphi, C++, Python and etc.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I've tried C++, but I can't find a compiler that works. That is to say, one that I can work.
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