____/ dapunka on Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:25 : \____
> On 7 Aug, 13:17, spi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> dapunka <dapu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>
>> > Apart from a school-hood dabble in 80s BASIC, I have no programming
>> > experience. I've written a few BASH/BOURNE shell scripts, but never
>> > any real coding.
>> > I want to fix that. My question is: where should a newcomer like me
>> > start? C++? C#? Python? Java? What's best for someone who knows
>> > very little?
>>
>> I'd say python.
>> No need to compile, as it's interpreted it's easier to debug, you can use it
>> in interactive mode or program mode, the syntax is friendly and flexible.
>> You can start off as just an imperative language, move on to procedures and
>> then graduate to object oriented using the same language...
>>
>> Oh, and the documentation on python.org's not bad either.
>
> As a general answer to Gregory Shearman, Hadron and spike: thanks a
> lot to you all!I'm definitely gonna have a look at python.
>
> To Gregory in particular: I'm not so sure about learning C... it's
> been suggested to me that C is pretty well out-of-date now. I'm not
> dissing your suggestion here... just passing on what friends of mine
> have already suggested.
>
> So, to one and all - thanks a lot, everybody!!
Java, Python and Ruby (/on Rails) would be great.
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