How should I get started with programming? Which language should I learn first?

Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by eduardosasso on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:40AM (#2169671)

Probably some people would kill me for that answer but i would say you should learn PHP.

PHP is simple, good documentation and great community. Facebook is built on top of PHP so as Drupal and Wordpress.

But the main point about my recommendation is that PHP is installed everywhere, you don't have to spend much time configuring and doing sysadmin stuff to make it work.

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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by panschk13 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:28AM (#2169752)

I started with Qbasic and did my first more ambitious projects in PHP. I agree that it is really easy to get started, but the horrible security holes I created are the downside;-)

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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by jefe78 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @06:21AM (#2169851)

So is Python!

I don't feel that a newbie should be learning a web language as his first. It just seems like an unintuitive learning process to me.

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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by danneu on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:09AM (#2170076)

Ruby/Python don't have that same "click and drag into FTP client then load up in browser" ease, though.

I'd definitely recommend PHP to anyone who wants to jump into web development.

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