Programming starters guide

Hey /prog/

I want to try again at programming.

I started 1.5 years ago with alice (lol alice) in some highschool course I took, while the class was largely a waste of time, it did teach me the basics of programming.

With this knowledge I moved onto Java using some textbook .pdf I was recommended here. I caught on pretty fast and was able to write some simple programs that didn't really have any application unless you needed a guy to write you a program that could add 2 variables. I got about halfway through the book before I gave up.

Anyway, I want to try again and was wondering, should I start with Java since I have a little experience with it, or should I start with something else?

Also, if you can, provide me with the learning materials I'll need to get going.

Thanks

My first response was "Alice, the chatbot?" and then I looked up the "Alice" that you probably meant.

If you `gave up', you're clearly too uninterested and unmotivated to make it anywhere.

Read SICP

I like Alice Margatroid in the PC98 games more than the Windows games. I prefer the sexy loli body and more friendly personality.

Given the choice, loli Alice is probably the Touhou I would most like to have sex with, with Cirno and Flandre in a close second place tie (or draw, from their perspective).

Which Touhou would you have sex with OP?

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Well the reason I gave up was because it was making me write programs to do advanced math I didn't understand.
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Didn't realise even this board was filled with shitposters

>>3
Also, thanks for the SICP recommendation.

Learn BBCode. It's the most useful for shitposting, and you can shit like this:
^{go back to /g/ you fucking idiot}

>>5
Didn't realise even this board was filled with shitposters
Have you read a single thread on this board?

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Well the first thread I saw was that, "I just broke up with my gf" one, I merely assumed it was a random troll, how wrong I was.

I vaguely remember you guys being helpful a year ago though...

>>9
The board was better a week ago, then it got even worse. We got attacked by about 5 spambots at once.

>>5
Well the reason I gave up was because it was making me write programs to do advanced math I didn't understand.

Then don't try to read SICP right now. A fun book teaching you the basics of programming is what you're looking for. Find one of those books making you build small games (text games or puzzles, not 3D).