learn a programming language

A friend of mine that knows some programming has told me to learn Java, so I guess that is the one that I will learn!

Oops – I didn’t mean to add this to my ‘To Do’ list, just wanted to get on the other side of it to be registered as “Willing to Help”. I’ve been in the IT industry for nearly ten years now, and programming is my bread and butter.

Just learned the basics of PHP. Very easy to pick up if you have had any experience in other languages.

Things I know:
C/C++
BASIC
Matlab

Things I need:
VHDL/FPGA
ASICHTMLPHP
MySQL
Java
Ruby on Rails
Perl (probably not)

I used to play around in BASIC with our Atari 800XL, but that was a little while ago… more recently I dabbled in javascript, but never did anything remotely significant with it. My company gave me an account to SkillPort, which has lots of IT courses, so I figure I’ll do a couple C++ courses.

I learned html, then java, then c. I never use the first two, so don’t waste your time with them. c can make anything possible, aside from internet applets, but that’s a rare usage of java, and the only reason why learning it was not a TOTAL waste.

this book is a gentle introduction to programming, using ruby.

Still working out whether it’s gonna be Python, Ruby or SQL to start with - I’m likely to end up working with Web and Games - hence the Python and SQL attraction (and I’m hearing good things about Ruby…)

It’s been 20-some years since I knew Basic (yea, yea, insert dinosaur jokes here ;p), so I have a broad understanding, but want to be able to create on the fly.

Lemme see, at some point or another, I knew or know, C++, PHP, Perl, LISP, Basic, Logo, and a handful of others. Right now, I’m learning Ruby on Rails.

I think I’m going to start with Python and go from there. According to something I read, it’s a good language to start with.