Good starter language?
1
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:11
Well, I've never programmed before (other than basic HTML) and would like to know a good starting language. Any suggestions?
2
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:12
python
3
Name:
OP
2008-06-03 21:14
What's a good place to learn it?
4
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:20
Learn Haskell. You can read the gentle introduction into Haskell in the next link
http://www.haskell.org/tutorial
5
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:21
Never heard of it. Is it useful, or is it semi-useless like BASIC?
6
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:35
>>5
Nothing is semi-useless like Basic.
7
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-03 21:48
>>4
oh wow, the gentle introduction...
there's no better place for a beginner to start imo.
8
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-03 21:56
>>6
I'd say totally useless, but calculators run basic scripts as games D=
9
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-03 22:01
>>5
no, it's completely useless, like brainfuck or lisp.
10
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-03 22:37
>>9
/pr/ is that way ---->
i mean, /acs/
11
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 0:04
>>9
The ACM frowns upon your faggotry.
12
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 8:37
HTML is not fucking programming. Learn LISP.
13
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 8:38
LISP is not fucking programming. Learn ARC.
14
Name:
Patrics 2008-06-04 10:08
I'd suggest my CROMA LISP.
15
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 15:54
J2EE
16
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 16:46
Learn APL. Its syntax is really the easiest to learn, being based on basic math.
17
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 16:53
>>16
A better alternative would be Brainfuck, for its minimal and thus fast to learn operator set, and its lenient syntax.
18
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:12
Learn assembly, you'll understand the MACHINE better.
19
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:17
>>17
seconding brainfuck. excellent for first timers, easy IDE, very helpful compiler
20
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:35
>>16
Definitely APL. You'll learn a lot of fancy symbols too.
21
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:39
(∼R∈R°.×R)/R←1↓ιR
22
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:44
Learn Pascal. It's great for begginners.
23
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:46
>>22
And for
enders . No, thank you.
24
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 17:53
Learn Eiffel. It's great for the guy that created Eiffel.
25
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 20:40
You could try .Net, SQL or C++..
26
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-04 20:47
>>25
".Net" is not a language.
27
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-04 21:15
>>25
"SQL" is not a programming language, but then he didn't really specify.
28
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-04 21:55
>>27
He did specify "language", he didn't specify "programming language".
29
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 22:09
>>28
Well, then I would recommend Esperanto as a good starting language.
30
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 22:12
>>18
You're right, but you're recommending it for the wrong reason. It just hurts your point. It's important to start in ASM for the historical perspective. Then you'll get fully prepared to move forward to Lisp, Fortran, C, Perl, until you reach Python.
31
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 22:22
>>30
until you reach VimScript.
fix'd.
32
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-04 23:50
>>29
Fuck that,
Lojban > Esperanto
33
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 0:03
34
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 0:14
Japanese is useful. Playing H-games is much more fun than programming.
35
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-05 0:28
>>34
Then, if i were you, I'd go back to /jp/.
36
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 7:03
OP Here.
37
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 7:07
>>36
that's not a programming language.
38
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 7:13
Well, would Python be good to start with?
39
Name:
Anonymous
2008-06-05 7:36
Learn PHP, you can start making cool dynamic web pages in no time at all :)
40
Name:
Anonymous 2008-06-05 8:49
>>39
I wouldn't bother with PHP until PHP6 comes out and is adopted by most of the bread-and-butter shared hosting services.
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