I want to learn programming, which lanuage please help?

Question:

2011-12-31 15:50:27 UTC

Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. out of these which language should i start learning first. its impossible for me to decide, without any knowledge of these. Please tell me in which order i should learn these and why. If i wanted to be a clever computer programmer(HACKER), which order will i have to learn them in?

Seven answers:

Misesean X

2012-01-04 01:41:59 UTC

Probably not very helpful, but: If you want to be a "clever computer programmer" you need to understand the computer, not a particular language; if you get that, you can use any language...meanwhile, languages, especially languages like Java or C++, just get in the way and prevent you understanding the computer: it's unlikely that anybody who starts with C++ or Java will ever be more than a code monkey, pasting chunks of pre-written code in a fancy IDE they can't live without, who think the number of people who use a language is a measure of its fitness-for-purpose (of course it's really the opposite: popularity = mediocrity!). And Perl is not so much a language as a semantic overlay on line noise. Python is "Lisp for stupid people".

green meklar

2012-01-01 03:29:37 UTC

Java is the best of those to start with, if you have absolutely no prior experience.

After that, you'll want to learn C/C++, and then maybe Perl and Lisp later on. Python is pretty much useless.

tica

2012-01-01 00:30:30 UTC

i recommend python ....java and other programing languages are too stricted and you need to learn a lot of staff....in python everything is simply and easy...and you can make big programs easy and fast

randomness123

2012-01-01 00:04:45 UTC

I would start with c++ even though it has a very steep learning curve but it helps alot with learning other languages but you would need at least 6 months to just get comfortable with c++ but it'll all be worth it in the long run.

Next I would say Java then C then Python but it doesnt really matter what the order is after you learn c++

Good Luck!

Makuto9

2011-12-31 23:58:27 UTC

Python first, for its simplicity, then C++. The other languages don't matter when it comes to order.

anonymous

2011-12-31 23:54:08 UTC

C/C++ I think is the most common place to start, people say it's easier to lean the others of you learn that first.

Joseph

2011-12-31 23:52:35 UTC

I think Html or Java would work, Java is quite fun to work with.

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