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Programming - Beginners
Programming - Beginners
For the complete beginner, programming can seem like a very tough subject to go and study...mainly because there is so much to learn.
- Operating systems: Windows/Mac/Linux/-etc.
- Programming languages: BASIC/C/C++/C#/COBOL/Delphi/Fortran/Forth/Java/LOGO/Pascal/Python/Ruby/Smalltalk/-etc.
- Web based programming: Front end/Back end.
Thus, it is very highly confusing for the complete beginner to know exactly where on earth to start...?!
Personally speaking, I would say use whatever operating system that you can easily have the most frequent access to...be it available inside the home/or else, outside in college/public library/internet high street shop.
In regards to learning programming, I would say start with learning web based programming; why, web based programming...because it allows you to both study/share code all over the internet...meaning the whole wide world.
Learn the 2 'presentation' languages, first: HTML(plain text)/CSS(decorative effects: colours/-etc.); next, add on programming by learning Javascript(which can be used to do both front end/back end programming).
NOTE: You don't necessarily need to learn the whole of an entire language in order to be able to work with it effectively; instead, you can very slowly work at learning each language in parts; meaning learn it bit by bit. It is also possible to work on learning multiple languages together, at once; that is provided they are linked: HTML/CSS/Javascript, are all inter-linked languages.
For example, the following single line of code combines together all 3 languages: HTML/CSS/Javascript.
<script>document.write("<p style='red'>Hello, world!</p>");</script>
You can see the above code output effect by clicking here; (please, remember to use your web browser [<-back] button to return back to this page).
Another very important part of learning programming; is knowing exactly where to go to find the best quality resources to learn from. If you wish to learn: HTML/CSS/Javascript; then, I would very highly recommend you visit the following web site; which contains detailed beginner tutorials for each of these 3 individual languages.
- http://www.w3schools.com
- http://www.w3schools.com/html
- http://www.w3schools.com/css
- http://www.w3schools.com/js
- http://www.w3schools.com/jquery
- http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_ajax_intro.asp
- http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp
- http://www.w3schools.com/sql
Once you've already mastered learning the basics of how to write web pages using HTML/CSS/Javascript; then, you can go on to study working with many different programming languages: including, 'front end' Javascript framework languages such as JQuery/or, even NODE.JS which is used on the 'back end'; you might even wish to consider adding databases to your web site using both: AJAX/Asynchronous Javascript And XML + JSON/JavaScript Object Notation; or, SQL/Structure Query Language/-etc.
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