Newbie Question re: Programing.

[Kainthes]

DB,



Hey guys wasnt sure where to post this, But i thought i would head to the community for some advice.

I am trying to get into learning some programming, I went out tonight and bought a Red Hat Linux Fedora book with the Core program and i am setting up a Dual boot system this evening on one of my older machines.

My question is what should i start with First. I have been told of the following:

Python, Perl, Lisp, C or C++, Unix and java.

Can anyone toss me some advice.

Thanks,

Kainthes....

[Steve]

well.. first dont bother dual booting a machine if its your spare anyways.

and as far as programming, WHY would you wanna learn that?
unless you have found some secret market for programmers please tell us !!Web design is getting popular and its sorta like programming.

[Noelm]

Some interesting choices listed there....

Linux is really unnessecary (altho there are nice things about it). I do the majority of my programming on a windows machine and in some cases a unix machine. If you've already got a windows machine, I wouldn't even bother with linux ;p.

C++ would be ideal for a starting programmer. It's powerful and frequently used, and gets you into good programming habits (as opposed to perl or even java, which will allow you to get away with *many* not really correct programming habits) Furthermore, if you can do C++, you can basically do java, while the reverse relationship isn't nessecarily true.

If you're just starting to teach yourself programming and have no experience, you might want to consider doing HTML, and then moving onto javascripting (which is *not* the same as java) or perl CGIs. Web programming is not terribly difficult and quite interesting/fun/rewarding.

Hope this helps some.

[Steve]

agree with above poster