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Developer's Corner / Re: Seeking Programming Language To Learn

« Last post by plor on January 06, 2009, 03:17 PM »

I would recommend Java as a good language to start out on.  It has good tutorials and will get you thinking about lots of good programming things.  Java is object-oriented, which is a paradigm that should be learned eventually I think.  There is somewhat of a learning curve, so if you want something else I would perhaps suggest perl.  There are many people who will tell you that perl is old and dying, but the fact is that people still use it all the time.  It is similar in many ways to python, but I think it has more soul.

Another thing you might enjoy about perl is it is a natural programming language, meaning that code translates easily to English.  It may work better with your brain because of this.