[wplug] Best programming language for beginner?

[Ben Beige]

I think this is dependent on your needs, what you want to be able to
program, and how easy it is to find help for it. If you're looking just to
learn fundamental stuff that could work as a gateway to multiple languages,
or one platform to base all the work you plan on doing in. Also ease of
learning may also be relative to the person learning it's mind set.  If you
wanted to learn C/C++, you might was well start there. If you want a higher
level language, Java/Ruby/python are also good choices. Its
all dependent on what your ultimate goal is.


Ben Beige
dariuscardren at gmail.com


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:13 PM, terry mcintyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am a big fan of Python.
>
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> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think Ruby is a great choice, but Python would be my second.
> >>
> >> Either is good for beginning because of the environment.  Using a
> console
> >> makes it easier than having to deal with the JVM and write/compile/run
> >> sequence.  There are some good online programming tools where you can
> just
> >> write ruby in a browser and run immediately
> >>
> >> Checkout tryruby.com  Not sure of a similar tool for Python.
> >>
> >> Greg Akins
> >> http://twitter.com/akinsgre
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, <Justin at js-wordsmith.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I consider myself very knowledgeable about many aspects of using a
> >> > computer, but programming, sadly, is not one of them. I took Java in
> >> > college, but I wasn't very good at it.
> >> >
> >> > I seem to keep running into situations where I wish I could code,
> either
> >> to
> >> > edit existing programs or create something new. I'd really, really
> like
> >> to
> >> > give programming another try. What would you recommend for a beginner
> who
> >> > wants to learn something simple - simpler than Java, I mean - yet
> usable?
> >> > Search results seem to suggest either Python or Ruby.
> >> >
> >> > Justin Smith
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