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Thanks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NoteMe
Staying up late ... standing up early ...
HTML is just a tool. Design is an art. Coding someone else's design using a tool is just a means to an end. Any language that lets you program a computer to do a task is worth learning. Learning HTML is something that can be done with automated tools, and usually better than you can.
I started with COBOL on a mainframe, but before we could take any courses in COBOL, we had to take 2 semesters of BAL (Basic Assembler Language), just so we could get a taste of the power of a higher level language.
JoelOnSoftware is still advocating that everyone learn C instead of C++. I just read his advice to college students this week.
As long as .Net is so cheap, why not start with that? It is a mixture of a few different things (or so I'm told) so once you get a handle on it, then you will have an edge on anything else you want to learn.
I could now get into a loooong argument about HTML and its purpose - but it would be off-topic.
I advocate C++ before C. It's far more beginner-friendly.
I had a real problem with C++. I like to grasp something inside out when I learn for the first time. After doing a lot of structured programming, I got to object orientated and got lost. I still managed to pass the classes (2 were required) but by the end of the second one, I had gotten the hang of it. I took a third class and got A's. The other classes really killed my GPA. Worst grades I ever got in a Computer class.
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Originally Posted by CornedBee
I am not sure, but if I would have restarted now I think I would have started with C# before C++. But not 100% sure though. But I think so. C# and then Managed DX....:cool:
Stop - stop - stop - this thread is like over 2 years old...
It was painful to read as it is...
Let me get this straight, although HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup language, it is NOT a language. It is just a 'format'.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLibra
Language has certain characteristics, decision making, flowstrutures and etc.
QuickBASIC is a good place to start off programming. Because it is very easy. After you learn decision makings and flowstructures and subrountines, u can move on to Visual Basic to make Windows applications.
You can stick with Visual Basic for sometime until you get some experience.
Later you can migrate to C++ or Java with great experience. You will then start exploiting OOP techniques.
Anyone ever here of the program "Authority"?
Man, lol, that was an easy program. Not sure if it had its own language or if it ran off an existing language.
But, I started with Vic20, then Qbasic, then C++, then VB.
Seemed to work ok, if I had time to do more than just web programming.
it is the format that browsers understand to display webpages. you have to know the format in order to display pages. Office will automatically make any document into html. Does that mean that it is a programming applications (AI) ? I don't think so...