Want to learn programming, have no past experience.

[Camul]

What is the easiest language to learn for someone who is a complete beginner and which are the best and easiest tutorials to follow?

[ixi_your_face]

Try here, They're decent enough for a beginner and there's a plethora of languages for you to try your hand at

[Paralectic]

Start with small basic and learn the real basic coding by making really small things ( make a turtle move, for example ) and then

start with HTML/CSS and some Javascript (jQuery ) and PhP.

[Camul]

Try here, They're decent enough for a beginner and there's a plethora of languages for you to try your hand at

Thanks you.

 

Start with small basic and learn the real basic coding by making really small things ( make a turtle move, for example ) and then

start with HTML/CSS and some Javascript (jQuery ) and PhP.

 I know HTML, but I was under the impression that it was a completely different thing to learning programming??

[Paralectic]

Thanks you.

 

 I know HTML, but I was under the impression that it was a completely different thing to learning programming??

Not really, HTML can be combined with Javascript/PhP, ASP.net and such.

 

You can also learn C#/C++ and such in Visual Studio for example but that's more complicated than beginning web development.

[Student]

HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language.

Id go for something like python, it is a easy language and it is used alot in science.

http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

[Guest Gazzer96]

I currently learning how to program. I'm trying out Lua/Gmod Lua.

[Hawx]

Yeah go with Python. 

If you want to learn v2, I would suggest: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

If you want to learn v3, I would go with: https://groklearning.com/

Groklearning has all online courses with challenges to test what you've learn't, would recommend it.

[Camul]

Thanks guys. Before I commit to learning Python first, is Java easy to learn? It's just I'll be able to use that to make mods for Minecraft and such. It would be nice to have a real way to test out what I learn.

[Nallown]

Thanks guys. Before I commit to learning Python first, is Java easy to learn? It's just I'll be able to use that to make mods for Minecraft and such. It would be nice to have a real way to test out what I learn.

It's not easy to learn but it's totally worth and once you understand the super basics of it then you'll be able to pretty much learn any programming language at ease. Just don't give up and keep in trying

 

java was pretty much my 2nd language and after that I was able to learn any language at ease and I was even able to master java after learning the basics within a few weeks

[Camul]

It's not easy to learn but it's totally worth and once you understand the super basics of it then you'll be able to pretty much learn any programming language at ease. Just don't give up and keep in trying

 

java was pretty much my 2nd language and after that I was able to learn any language at ease and I was even able to master java after learning the basics within a few weeks

Thanks. That sound like it will be a lot more useful to me. I found some tutorials by thenewboston that a lot of people seem to recommend. However, I'd love to know which tutorial you used to learn if you don't mind.

[Evolas]

Thanks you.

 

 I know HTML, but I was under the impression that it was a completely different thing to learning programming??

 

You would be more-or-less correct. 

 

Honestly, I am going to advise you to stay away from learning HTML/CSS as beginner "programming" languages.  While these languages do have their places in minor programming concepts, they are definitely NOT the same.  Web programming is much different from actual Systems programming. 

 

If you want to learn the kind of programming that is used in a variety of systems like C/C++, Python, Java, etc.  I would recommend that you start with something as simple as Python.  This will teach you the bare-bone basics like creating variables, handling different data types, creating user-defined functions, etc.  Once you get comfortable and more experienced with a language like Python, move on to some of the more difficult languages like C/C++. 

 

I really do not understand the people who suggest others to learn things like HTML/CSS before going into Python or Java.  There's a lot more to high-level programming languages than writing language syntax into an HTML document. HTML is a Markup Language; this is very different than a Programming Language.  Programming languages need to be compiled before they can be executed.

[LePawel]

Well, I started with modding games that use custom scripting languages. These have taught me basic conventions that come from programming subconsciously. I was then happily dumped straight into C++, after 1.5 years I am now working on small 2D games as uni projects. I don't think there's anything bad in learning C++ from the start, it's just that you can't expect to build multi-thousand-lines-of-code programs within first few weeks or even months.

There's never a bad way to start as long as you keep doing it consistently and web development is massively different from programming, stay away from it unless you actually want to create websites.

[Nallown]

Thanks. That sound like it will be a lot more useful to me. I found some tutorials by thenewboston that a lot of people seem to recommend. However, I'd love to know which tutorial you used to learn if you don't mind.

They way I learned wasn't the most efficient way, I basically thought of a project and googled how to do certain things of the project e.g. one of my first project was a calculator so I googled how to add and subtract and then I added a GUI to the calculator so googled how to create a GUI and then I wanted to create a custom GUI so googled that. But many things I did learn from thenewboston but that was mostly advanced things I learned from him. for the basics I pretty much googled it.