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dmcfarland:
Happy thanksgiving all. I want to learn how to program. I dont know a thing. Ive only had experience with modifying batch, config.sys, ini and some registry keys. Other than that I dont know a thing about programming or writing code. I am primarily a hardware guy, a little networking, software and ms software, and so on.

Where do I get started? How do I crawl first so I can walk and later on run. What do I start out with? Is it something like HTML, or perl?

Whats the best course for a programming newbie thats pretty much starting from scratch?

Thanks :thumbup:

TheQuirk:
Anything you want, really. Just buy a book from your local book store and start going through it. Once you're done, start working on more interesting things.

Personally, I would recommend Python. It's free and popular, and the website has a guide which will teach you all the basics.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Yup, python is probably the best language to start with ... and they have tutorials for non-programmers :thumbup:

worker201:
ESR also recommends Python, but as a second language.  First is HTML - if you can't make a web page using vi, then you aren't ready to program.  Personally, I kinda like JavaScript, because it is so useful, and it is an interpreted language, so you can just open your browser to test your programs.

dmcfarland:
Isnt htlm a markup langauge? I hate VI. I would rather use emacs or write it up in Open Office, save as text and insert the html tags afterwords.

HTML is a lot of memorization.

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