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>>45355864 That
depends on what language you want to learn. What language you should
learn depends on what you want to do with it. There are a few other
factors to consider, like inherent difficulty, but there are a lot of
languages out there that aren't strictly better or worse than each
other.
If you know someone with a PHP-installed webhost, or can
manage through installing an Apache server on your machine, you can
write and run PHP scripts. PHP is HTML embedded (that means it's
inserted into an HTML page), and HTML is easy as shit to learn. PHP
itself is weakly-typed (that means very forgiving), and C-like (that
means similar to C, C++, C#, Obj-C, and Java, which comprise the
majority of real programming work), meaning it's both easy and useful to
learn before doing something harder. And you can use HTML to make the
interface elements for anything you want to test which is, again, easy
because HTML is easy. Also, HTML/PHP can be made in any text editor and
doesn't need to be compiled.
Books are generally not useful.
Instruction from another person is the best. Online resources are things
you'll refer to constantly, unless you're working in something really
obscure (in which case, you'll buy a book specific to that thing).
Google is your friend. Java is the best-documented language ever, and I
miss working in it.
If you're in for something a bit more
serious, I'd say you should download Eclipse and pick a C-like language.
I haven't checked Eclipse for its C# capability, as I'm using Visual
Studio (which is lovely for that), but it works well with Java. |