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Blogger Carl Cheo, who maintains a website providing numbered lists of tips for maximizing online productivity, has pulled together an easy-to-follow graphic answering the newbie question "What programming language should I learn first?" (pdf here). Cheo chose nine commercially viable languages as possible destinations as the viewer navigates the flow chart. Further down the page, there are tabs with annotated links to educational resources for each language. So what's in it for Soylentils, most of whom I'm guessing were programming newbies in the previous millenium? Well, maybe you have nephews or nieces who chose the wrong major in college. Besides, the graphic is amusing and clever, though probably not the last word on the subject.
(Score: 2) by crutchy on Sunday January 25 2015, @06:37AM
fwiw
- html (hotdog - get off my lawn!)
- visual basic (ms access)
- object pascal (delphi)
- php (lamp)
i would recommend pascal for beginners. its strong typing means a lot of basic learning mistakes are picked up by the compiler, and delphi (well, up to delphi 7 anyway) was an awesome IDE that made debugging fairly easy. the delphi VCL is also a great example to learn from.
for all the flak that php cops, its a nice language that's pretty easy to pick up, and is flexible, and if its good enough for facebook and wikipedia it can't be all that bad.