/prog/ - New to programming

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:06

Hey. I really want to get into programming but I don't know where to start. Where would you all suggest?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot

Name: OP 2012-12-18 13:14

And this is sposta be the most basic place to start?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:17

No, the most BASIC would be http://www.libertybasic.com/.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:19

Basic dosent matter to me too much but I want there to be good reasons and uses of the language that I'm learning. I don't mind trying something harder as long as I can do things with it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:22

>>3
Yep. That's the most basic stuff. Get a good grip on this material first, then you can move on with the more complicated things like XML, x86 ASM, Javascript, mIRC Script, PL/SQL and Ruby on Rails.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:32

Learn C#

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:36

But what are kinds of things I can do with these. Btw. I'm in pre ap comp programming next semester. We learn Jericho, Alice a little c and python. What should I do to get ahead.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:36

Read SICP. No, really. It's a good starter.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:37

Jericho
Salam!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 13:56

This is not a programming forum. This is the Ministry of Silly Programming Languages!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 14:01

LISP isn't by chance what graphing calculators run on. It looks and performs very similar.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 14:15

Can anyone shed some light on square roots the newton method?

(define (sqrt-iter guess x)
(if (good-enough? guess x)
      guess
      (sqrt-iter (improve guess x)
   x)))

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 14:23

>>13
This is a definition of a squirter. The upper part is asking whether it is good enough. The bottom part improves while it squirts. Both parts make guesses about their functions.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 15:05

>>14
you mean like cytherea?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 16:05

>>13
Have you never played this game with a pocket calculator as a child? Repetitively pressing a function key such as "√" until new key presses don't change the result anymore?
If you have done that then you understand the Newton method, fixed points and the Y combinator.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-18 16:52

>>16
Whoa, The Sussman really is the third poster on /prog/, besides you and me!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 2:18

>>12

they use different languages (usually basic though) including lisp, reverse polish lisp etc

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 6:05

learn python first, and then jump into C, if you want desktop programming, if you want to design websites, learn html, css, javascript and php.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 6:39

L'chaim
You earned L'chaim on Musical Practice and Performance!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 9:43

>>20
Shalom!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 12:24

Start with the book "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" from 1854 by George Boole.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-19 12:50

After what >>22 said, study the Suanpan to be familiarized with base 10 and base 16 calculations

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