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Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ONWARDBABA: 8:22pm On Jan 23, 2012
please my masters and leaders on this aspect can you help me to anlysis the best programing languages dat wuill help me to get well with my website design and why do i need to know them thanks alot

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by Bossman(m): 3:04pm On Jan 24, 2012
This question or similar comes up here almost every week. You may want to search to get a feel for what others have said. Also, you need to provide more details regarding exactly what you are trying to achieve, and what you already know.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ONWARDBABA: 8:11pm On Jan 24, 2012
AM A WEB DESIGNER BUT NEED MORE KNOWLEDGE ON PROGRAMMING TO BECOME A GOOD DEVELOPER
I BELIEVE DAT FOR A WEB SITE TO BE DYNAMIC YOU MUST UNDERSTAND CERTAIN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES RANGING FROM PHP,MYSQL RUBY,XML AND CODES LIKE HTML AND ASP.NET

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by Nobody: 8:12pm On Jan 24, 2012
I would recommend you start with Python,  because it is simple and succinctly comprehensible than many other programming languages. If you do you would not regret it - for choosing it as something to start with. Good luck!

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by lordZOUGA(m): 10:30pm On Jan 24, 2012
easy is never good, There is always a catch,

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ektbear: 11:38pm On Jan 24, 2012
Pick an "easy" programming language. You'll learn more new things with an easy language than with a hard one that forces you to mess around with details that don't matter (at least for many applications.)

My own languages of choice these days are Ruby and Java. Python is really popular too and relatively easy.

Stay away from languages like C and C++ or anything that involves manual memory management. I'd even also suggest staying away from Java, since it requires you to declare the type of a variable before you use it.

Ruby and Python are both very good bets.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by lordZOUGA(m): 12:03am On Jan 25, 2012
@ONWARDBABA, u wanna develope web apps or standalone apps?
@ekt_bear, depends on what u wanna do,

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ONWARDBABA: 10:53am On Jan 25, 2012
both sir web app and standolne
how do i start

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by csharpjava(m): 11:42am On Jan 25, 2012
@Poster
Since you are already a web designer, it is best you learn C# and ASP.Net which will quickly allow you develope web applications that are ready to be deployed online.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ONWARDBABA: 8:01pm On Jan 25, 2012
ok sir for emplyment do u nd to get certified and how
or wat can make ur cv more boyant

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ektbear: 8:25am On Jan 29, 2012
lordZOUGA:

@ekt_bear, depends on what u wanna do,

What do you mean?

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by nwonknu(m): 9:50am On Jan 29, 2012
There is no "best" programming language. The subject matter is much more subjective than just that.

Depending on what you hope to program, i.e., if you want to automate daily tasks, or hope to write low-level programs that interact with the CPU, you have have very different areas of study, and your mileage might vary between that which one person may recommend to another.

Personally, as a beginner, I'd recommend Python. It's quick, dirty and easy to learn, and teaches you simple user-level ideologies, and generally good practices that you can adopt to other languages that are procedural.

Follow things like http://www.reddit.com/r/programming

Take a look at http://docs.python.org

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by okeyxyz(m): 5:50pm On Feb 01, 2012
@all, why has nobody recommended php\mysql which r supposed to be the most popular web programming languages? though i'm not an expert to compare it to python, java, etc, but i thought being most popular, there must be advantages to it.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ggiwebinfo: 10:58am On Feb 23, 2012
You should starts with C language because This is a basic language that is really important for programming, Thuis language will help you to learn C++ and java language,

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ONWARDBABA: 11:35am On Feb 23, 2012
HELO PEEPS,
I NEED THE FOLLOWING TUTORIAL RUBY AND PHYTON AND HOW DO I DESIGN ON OPEN APPS THANX ALOT

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by delomos(m): 6:41pm On Feb 23, 2012
ONWARDBABA:

HELO PEEPS,
I NEED THE FOLLOWING TUTORIAL RUBY AND PHYTON AND HOW DO I DESIGN ON OPEN APPS THANX ALOT

You can start here: http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book/ there is a python version too, but you will generally choose one or the other.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by armand88(m): 7:18pm On Mar 08, 2012
what i will advice you to do is to begin with PASCAL because that is the first and the easiest programming languague

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by ektbear: 4:50am On Mar 09, 2012
A month or two after I posted in this thread, I think my answer remains the same.

Pick Python or Ruby. Learn programming using those, master the important concepts.

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Re: Which Programming Language Should I Start With And Why? by RashEngine: 12:53am On Nov 09, 2014
ektbear:
Pick an "easy" programming language. You'll learn more new things with an easy language than with a hard one that forces you to mess around with details that don't matter (at least for many applications.)

My own languages of choice these days are Ruby and Java. Python is really popular too and relatively easy.

Stay away from languages like C and C++ or anything that involves manual memory management. I'd even also suggest staying away from Java, since it requires you to declare the type of a variable before you use it.

Ruby and Python are both very good bets.


chai, u don get am, my problem na that memory management in c++, I know how it works, but I don't know how to make use of them while writing codes. I don't know what necessitates its use. please help

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