Hai thar /prog/ I'm 15, going into sophmore year of highschool, and getting to be decent with computers. My last 2 computers have been built by me, I've done some game modding/scripting(Major TES fan), and I succesfully tri-boot gentoo lunix, freebsd, and XP. Overall, I know a pretty decent amount of my shit, and I've just recently started getting into programming. I've started out by learning Java, mainly because I want to take the AP exam for Comp Sci, and that means Java. I bought a book to learn the language, and a review book for the actual exam. My question, has anyone here taken the AP Comp Sci A or AB exams recently? Suggestions? Java isn't the most popular language from what I gather, so what should I learn after that?
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Anonymous2007-08-02 6:41 ID:v9qwa+3Y
Java isn't the most popular language from what I gather, so what should I learn after that?
Yes, Java is shit. What you should learn depends on what you want to do, if you're looking for job then previously suggested C# is a good choice or C/C++/PHP depending on what you like to develop, but these aren't nice programming languages either. Situation gets more interesting if you can chose in which language you develop, but it again depends on what you need/like, decent programmers usually just pick up a bunch of languages and see which ones they like, the more you know the better programmer you become, even if you never use the language you learned. Some suggestions to get you started: Smalltalk, Lisp, Haskel, Erlang (unordered).
AP Comp Sci A or AB exams
WTF is that? I don't care..