Re: Very new programmer

From	"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Very new programmer
Date	2012-10-19 17:12 -0500
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"Ian German" <ianpgerman@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Hello.
>
> I am interested in programming but I don't know where to start. Can
> anybody give me some advice? I apologize in advance for anything I might
> be doing wrong, I am also new to Usenet.
>

I'll tell you how *I* got started.  I learned old-style FORTRAN and then 
learned assembly language.  Today, you can learn old-style BASIC in some 
places.  This gives you the concepts of loops, conditional execution (if 
statements), counting loops (FOR loops), and variables for storage... 
storing data values in memory.  Assembly language forces  you to learn about 
the *hardware* underneath and see how the computer adds two numbers (what 
instructions are used) and how binary and two's complement works.  Arrays 
and their implementation have been important in many of the older 
programming languages.

After you get the fundamental concepts down, then you can apply what you've 
learned to acquiring other langauges like LISP or C.

--

numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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Very new programmer Ian German <ianpgerman@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 21:06 -0300
  Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 02:11 +0100
    Re: Very new programmer Uncle Steve <stevet810@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 21:11 -0400
  Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-19 12:48 +0000
    Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 16:44 +0100
      Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-19 16:37 +0000
        Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 19:04 +0100
          Re: Very new programmer pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-10-19 14:38 -0400
          Re: Very new programmer Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-19 21:56 +0100
          Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-23 13:20 +0000
            Re: Very new programmer "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-10-23 18:49 +0100
            Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 19:41 +0100
  Re: Very new programmer Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-19 12:12 -0700
  Re: Very new programmer Markus Freund <markus.freund@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de> - 2012-10-19 23:20 +0200
  Re: Very new programmer "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-10-19 17:12 -0500

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