Want to learn programming

CLAWS · 23 May 2008 at 16:24

As the title suggests really.

Just to give you a bit of background. The last time I was programming was back in 2000 and that was in C#. Nothing massive, just enough to get me through the first semester at university.

For a long time Ive looked at Programming as one of my major achilles heels as try as I might I just could not get it to click in my head. Working through books was fine, but tell me to sit down and create a program that does such and such function would knock me sideways.

I have created this thread as I am looking at getting out of IT Support and moving into the Application development/Application Support side of things.

Any pointers on where I should start? Treat me as though I am a noob and please feel free to be brutal if you think that I am out of my depth on wanting to do this

CLAWS · 23 May 2008 at 16:34

Seems like a lot of the money in IT is in programming/developing unless Im mistaken.

Cant really see myself going further down the IT support route.

CLAWS · 23 May 2008 at 16:36

Hi Dean,

Remember Im a noob to this despite my (limited) experience of programming back in 2000.

Is learning Pythong pretty much getting a book from Waterstones and ploughing through it?

CLAWS · 23 May 2008 at 16:48

Sorry for posting this in the wrong section initially.

Sniffy, am I right in thinking that Java would be a good "all round" programming language to learn? Dean advised "Python" but will something like that be too heavy for a noob like me to digest?

Exentia - I am currently doing remote access, blackberry, machine rebuild support et al for a law firm. Its ok but it gets a bit same same.

Para, my C programming was more towards the end of 2000 and early 2001. Either way I can definitely remember doing C programming when I started my degree late 2000 :confused:

CLAWS · 23 May 2008 at 16:56

Hi Inquisitor,

Thanks for that. Looks like Ill be heading down the Python route with a bit more digging first of course.

Im thinking that it was C++ back in 2000. See? This is how noobish I am

Any other pointers you guys can give me? How about if I decided at some point to head down the SQL route?