Best Programming Language to start with?

Hello peeps. As someone who hasn't been lucky enough to be immersed into the world of programming when he was young, and has a hard time getting into it with net ressources, I need an easy and fast-learning language to start off with.

Any recommendations? Cheers!

>>79
Step 1: Read SICP.

More good reasons to start with C:

- simple typing system
- All modern languages were influenced by C in one way or another,  so once you learn C all the other imperative languages are easy
- Almost all languages today use C-like syntax
- Quake and Doom were written in C.

More good reasons to NOT start with C:

- Difficult to achieve results if you're a beginner.
- You could do the same thing with less lines of code in a non imperative language.
- Almost all imperative languages today are becoming extinct, thanks to the Lambda Gods, which have provided us with gifts like Haskell, OCaml, Clean, and Erlang.
- All the cool games are nowadays written in Sepples.

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Fortran. It's easy like Pascal, but the same speed as C and it is used by the fastest computer in the world.

>>83
Almost all imperative languages today are becoming extinct, thanks to the Lambda Gods, which have provided us with gifts like Haskell, OCaml, Clean, and Erlang.

lol wut

NOTHING is written in those languages. nice fail failtard

>>86
here, continuing on. first post was my kneejerk response.
srsly tho, no company is ever going to use a language that takes brains to learn. The reason being it is cheaper to use a simpler language because then the hires are cheaper.

both windows and linux were and are written in C and it's derivatives. since those two operating systems aren't going to suddenly dissapear, imperative languages are going to be stuck with us for a long time.

Some languages DESIGNED for beginners
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      http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html
   Squeak eToys.
   BASIC.
      VisualBasic is often cited as various people's first
      language. Before that, MS Qbasic was the first
      for many people.I think you can still download that
      from MS. There's over 100 BASIC implementations.
My first was Turbo Pascal and I enjoyed it. I guess Delphi and
   Lazarus are the closest to that now.
Python was supposed to make programming accessible to the
   masses, but every tutorial I've seen has been written for
   experienced programmers.

I started with BASIC, then moved to assembler. In hindsight, that was fucking stupid.

Python was supposed to make programming accessible to the
   masses, but every tutorial I've seen has been written for
   experienced programmers.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

>>89


In programming, everyone is fucking stupid at least once..or twice...or three times. Look at K&R C 1st Edition.

>>91
The more I learn, the more I realise how stupid I am.

can't we just agree to disagree ppl?

>>93

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{
  agree_with(93);
}

Want to beat themselves till with the   SOFTWARE OR THE   management and fucking   your subordinated programmers.

check em

Scheme & ASM are the best to start with. You'll thank me later.

check 'em.

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Racket.

Read on SICP or HTDP or Realm of Racker

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