Where to start?

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  1. twr

    twr Registered Senior Member

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    I'm interested in programming and I'm wondering if anyone knows of any good resources on theory and whatnot.
     
    twr, Jan 2, 2011
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  3. txrex

    txrex Registered Member

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    Take a look at my thread "noobish operating system" in this catagory I got some pretty good info from the posters in there.
     
    txrex, Jan 3, 2011
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  5. Dinosaur

    Dinosaur Rational Skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    You can get the express edition of Visual Basic 2010 for nothing & experiment with it.

    Barmes & Noble have some good books to get you started.
     
    Dinosaur, Jan 4, 2011
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  7. firdroirich

    firdroirich A friend of The Friends Registered Senior Member

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    Stanford Uni has a very nice set of videos for their Programming Methodology program - which I think is the first semester for their CS degree. Its 28 free lectures.

    This is programming 101...what is a variable, what is a method, what is an object all the way through to encapsulation, abstraction, GUIs and so on.

    Take a look here
     
    firdroirich, Jan 4, 2011
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  8. txrex

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    Dude.... firdroirich...... freaking perfect! That is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you very much
     
    txrex, Jan 4, 2011
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  9. fedr808

    fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    Start with C or C++, its not the easiest thing but its like that song about New York. If you can make it in C or C++ you can probably make it in any other modern language.

    I would find a teacher or a class to take it in.
     
    fedr808, Jan 4, 2011
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  10. Spectrum

    Spectrum Registered Senior Member

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    Qbasic is on Windows98/tools/oldmsdos (and therefore (probably) on windows 95 also.) There is a help file built in to help you.
     
    Spectrum, Jan 31, 2011
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  11. wolf.ram

    wolf.ram Registered Member

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    Look at htdp.org

    Also D.J. Cooke and H. E. Bez "Computer Mathematics" is a good book about theory, IMHO. But, unfortunately, there is no full e-book in English. Only in Russian.

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    wolf.ram, Jan 31, 2011
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  12. Rav

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    Seriously, for someone who is just starting out and wants to teach themselves, Python is the way to go. It's free, it's powerful, it's popular and you can do a lot with it very quickly. There is also a large amount of related resources on the web that are very accessible. You'll be able to learn all of the basic principles of programming in a very short time while creating some very cool things. You can move to more advanced programming languages later, although depending on your goals, you might not even need to.
     
    Rav, Jan 31, 2011
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