What is the first step to learn programming?

Skip the tutorials, they are well meaning but don't help a lot.





Instead start with a programming book meant for learning programming. I recommend one of the Sam's Teach Yourself series. The only thing they are good for is teaching basics. They are a losy reference, but for your needs, they would be the better of your choices.





What language would you like to learn? The most common on the internet is Ansi C. C++ and Java are more mainstream. Php is great for playing around with if you like website programming.





Start simple, get some words printing. Then learn the memory structures and conditional statements. After you have them, start on more complex (fun) issues.

What is the first step to learn programming?
The first step in learning any programming language is the program syntax of that language ie. how the program looks like.








The C is the best programming language to learn.Even pascal,basic are the two initial language to learn, but these not popular than C.
Reply:there are many free online resources. I would do a search on digg.com for programming. There are many free lectures,ebooks, etc on various websites.
Reply:Depends on what you want to do. Games are generally


developed using C/C++. Web programming touches on HTML,


JAVA, Java Script etc... Database programming can vary from


SQL, VB, Delphi, C/C++ etc. So try searching for what you want to


do in regards to programming as well as on what Operating system


you are targeting, then maybe you could be closer to an answer.
Reply:Well i have a turtorial program on my computer called learn to program basic that i bought. you could search up learn to program basic on www.google.ca


and if that edopesnt work then search for programming tutorials.
Reply:Learn to "flow chart". There are far too many languages out there for me to go much farther. Most came from "T" basic in the old Tandy Dartmouth days. Tandy had it all over D-basic due to such goodies as a "print at" function, where as D-basic took several lines of code to do the same thing. I have not used it since I began using turbo-pascal, but I have heard good reports about Ms's virtual basic. By the time you get ready to try C+++ you will have a two year college equivalent of experience under your belt.


Basic can be "self taught" but most of the other "higher" languages require formal schooling.


I got my first "computer science" degree in FORTRAN and COBOL back in the old IBM punch card days on a now museum piece IBM 1130.
Reply:Well, to make the committment to work at it until you do. After that you might want to kind of try on some different languages and types of programming before you commit to college. If you'd like to read some tutorials, get free compilers for different languages and editors, go to the URL below.
Reply:hmmmm. pretty vague question. what type of programming? html, xml, dhtml, flash, java, php, sql, perl, c++, basic, visual basic, dark basic, macro, cobal, ruby.... easiest one to start with is html. just get a book, or search for tutorials on google, then open notepad, and start programming to your heart's content... html is simple and requires nothing more than what your computer has on it now. whats the objective here? make a game? lot more to it than programming. you've got models or sprites to make, plots to layout, graphics to design. there is a lot more to programming than just typing code. tell me what you want to do, and i can help you get started.