What programming language should I learn first?

Question

I am planning to do some programming for additional income. You can say that I have NO idea whatsoever which programming language should I learn first.

Answer 1

C++

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Tutorials online:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

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Code::Blocks == open source free C/C++ IDE

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/5

codeblocks-8.02mingw-setup.exe

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Free Electronic Books

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Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel

Volume 1 & Volume 2

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

HTML

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

PDF

http://deptinfo.unice.fr/~roy/sicp.pdf

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How to Design Programs

by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi

http://www.htdp.org/

Answer 2

He maybe seeking to say that you simply have to study programming approaches and good judgment, as a substitute than languages. This rather is predominant, too. For illustration, being ready to preserve a talk in 15 human languages doesn't suggest you'll be able to write an extraordinary paintings of literature in any of them; and a rather good written software is similar to a rather good written guide, in that it demands to have many constituents that are compatible in combination in non-noticeable however strong methods.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Well, I suggest Q-basic or visual basic.



It's difficult though to make a profit from low level programming..



When you learn those you should try c++. Don't expect any good profits though..