Total Newb Programmer

thanks to Xeon ive got a list in whic order ill learn the most popular languages.first VB then C then Java. thanks for the great site though

Good to hear you're on ye' way, pal! ;-)

I'm a good boy now after all that has happened. :-)

You're welcome!

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Hi there Binary pal! Just a gift for ye' :

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This is a totally legal, high-quality and powerful site that has tons and tons of free books online : from basic how-to Windows OS guides to the leanest and meanest ATL COM programming books!
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I'm a good boy now after all that has happened. :-)

Xeon u r god

Thanks for the extremly ego-boosting compliment, but I'm no God, pal! :-)
Just gimme some gurls to play with will do. ;-)
(just kidding! :-D)

Dinosaurs rule, k?

ok hai but mr. manish u r right tht books r very time saver and all.
but now these days with book nothing can be done
some time books r not use full and net is usefull b'coz every thing is available on net
bye and hv nice day

Surender Singh
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I see that you have decided to start with Visual Basic, since it is the easiest to learn. I would agree with that. But just in case it turns out to be too expensive for a while, you may want to look into the free version of Java provided on the WEB by Sun.

Sun Microsystems owns the Java Programming Language, and they are interested in encouraging as many Java Programmers as possible. So they allow individuals to download the complete Java2 Platform, Standard Edition to program with. (I think they figure that if they create tons of Java Programmers around the world, then lots of big companies will pay Sun Big Bucks for their Java Enterprise Edition.)

Go to java.sun.com and click on "Products & APIs". You'll find the Java2 Platform Standard Edition which can be downloaded for free.

You can also find a lot of documentation and training material on the Sun site.

I agree, also, that you will need to use a lot of books if you are serious about learning programming. Some good ones to start with: "Java In A Nutshell" is a good starter book for Java. "The C Programming Language" by Kernigan & Ritchie is the best book you'll ever find about C. Kernigan & Ritchie created the C Programming Language back in the 1970's, and it is still fully in use as a sub-set of the C++ language. It is a short book, but it has more solid and deep C knowledge in it than books 5-times as thick!

I used basic years ago, but it has been too long for me to be able to recommend a good book for BASIC, visual or otherwise.

One good writer described BASIC as a programming language designed for people who don't know how to program. It starts from the premise that the programmer probably doesn't know what he is doing, so stop him if he starts to get into trouble. So BASIC is a fairly safe language to work with, but it is somewhat limited in the things it can do. C, on the other hand, was designed by progrmmers to be used by programmers. C starts with the basic premise that the programmer knows what he is doing, so don't get in his way! This design philosophy behind C makes it easy for a beginning programmer to get into trouble pretty easily (crashing the system, etc.)

C++ took the C language and extended it into a super collossally huge language, but it also made C a little safer to use. (All the features of C are included in C++).

Java is a little in between. It is easier to learn than C++ and it keeps you out of trouble a little more effectively. (In C++ you have to be concerned with something called "garbage collection", while Java and BASIC take care of that for you.

Good luck. If you are really serious about wanting to learn programming there is a great big beautiful world ahead of you that will require a lot of reading, writing programs, scratching your head, writing programs, wringing your brain, writing more programs, and writing more programs.

I've heard writers say that the only way to learn to write is to write. The same is true of programming. If you really like it, and want to do it, the best thing you can do is to write as many programs as you can.

(Xeon applauses)
Just how many posts in Codeguru.com is worthy of an applause loud as thunder? :-)
My! That was indeed interesting, Noah's Ark!
Yeah, yeah! Writing programs is the only way to truly learn : the more realistic and leaner the program, the more you'll learn. But first, start with small classroom-kid-like programs. Examples include displaying a message box when a button is clicked, or when the dialog is clicked using the right mouse button, display a large icon of a really really cute ****. Period. :-D

Dinosaur of the moment : Allosaurus

hey my school does have MVB 6 but the guy wont lend it to me for some reason. another bump in the road