|  Socman | Aug 27, 2005 10:56am | | I was hoping there was a website that both had a downloadable language and tutotial, or even a book I could buy, to learn to program. Is there one anyone knows about. |
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Sponsor |  Downlord | Sep 29, 2005 11:06am | | What exactly do you want to code? There are a lot of programing languages. |
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| | Socman | Oct 9, 2005 10:19pm | | Simple games ranging from "Catch the Mouse" (Which I'm told is the best for beginners), to platformers, to... Just general programing I guess. |
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Sponsor | | dhuett | Dec 31, 2006 4:26pm | I'm currently working with PHP ("... a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.)"
php.net [php.net] is an excellent site.
And, Should you get serious about writing your own code try, "Zend Studio" at zend.com [zend.com].
Good luck! :^) |
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|  afmanuk | Jan 28, 2007 11:34am | I say make a decision on what language you're going to learn, find a good website and/or book with good reference for the language (in case you get stuck) and there are lots of n00b tutorials on the web (although a fair few are good) but I personally think that books are the better choice as they are professionally written.
I'm currently, and slowly, working through a book called Professional PHP5 which looks more at the OOP side of PHP and since picking it up, I'd much rather not go back to internet tutorials ^_^. All personal opinion though |
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|  pawprint | Feb 17, 2007 5:48pm | Short answer: On-Line - never used a book and I don't believe that are necessary - any book by it's mere existence is probably at least one year out of date anyway.
Step 1: Pick a Language
Step 2: Search for Beginner Examples or Getting Started
Step 3: Code - give it about 2 or 3 years to get really good.
Step 3 is really the key, TO become a good coder you need to create a lot of different programs - try different things, explore other's code and develop a style that works for you. Some coders work the whole thing out on paper first, others just fly right in... Neither it "correct" what works best for you is probably the best way to proceed.
I learned about 6 programming languages entirely on-line and through trial and error - including C, Assembler, SQL, Delphi, HTML, PHP in that order. I have been coding for about 14 years now and have written several mission critical applications both client, client/server, and web application. I have no programming books on my bookshelf apart from a Regular Expressions Handbook that I was given as a gift and 3 Perl books (I don't program in Perl) - also a gift ;) |
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| | feminaalba | Feb 19, 2007 4:52pm | I don't agree that you shouldn't find a book. Book is always a good start to learn.
Of course, language documentation is your next best friend.
The rest of it is PRACTICE, PRACTICE and PRACTICE. Each new app you write will bring new problem which needs to be solved. You will never get bored. :) |
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|  risyasin | Mar 5, 2007 1:51am | :/ books....
yea they may be useful sometimes if their quality is much more than expected or written by an expert. but most of books are complete disappointment. i dont have a right to label bad any book here. :/ unfortunately all those writers of unqualified books are unaware about the programming language as an expert/not worked as a coder in longterm, they are just book writers.
certainly useful documentation about programming is only word/letter indexed references, nothing more.
first u have to learn about general information about target language.
good start in order. basics (definitions), capabilities of laguage, most important point of language is syntax -example based way is easy to learn syntax just like in pawprint's comment- then advanced coding ways, details of language.
i used to be a geography teacher -graduated now bachelor-,
even i had no lesson about computers in uni or in high school.
just started to learn programming as a personal hobby.
then it made me quit geography.
that's why i ve tried too much books about programming/algorithm.
most of them couldnt work for me. |
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