>One thing I'd suggest looking into is Project Euler. It provides a great set of computation problems to work through you beat me to it. sound like what i was looking for. One thing I'd suggest looking into is Project Euler. It provides a great set of computation problems to work through on a side note, a really off topic side note, does anyone else have google malaysia as their homepage. i set my home page as http://www.google.com/and it still come up google malaysia. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > Samael, > Don't worry too much about which language you're starting with. With > that said, Python is a good place to start. Lower level languages like > C and C++ are going to force you to deal with things like types and > memory management that you don't really need to worry about when > you're starting out programming. > > One thing I'd suggest looking into is Project Euler. It provides a > great set of computation problems to work through, and you can do it > in any language you like. Having real programming problems to work on > helps because you're not paying as much attention to the language as > you are figuring out how to solve the problem at hand. > > http://projecteuler.net/ > > Good luck. > > -Erik > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Samael <samael.anon at gmail.com> wrote: > > i threw python idle on my puter again. going to start there. this is > the > > best description i have seen. i bought learn java in 21 days about 7 > years > > ago. i didn't quite stick that one out. bye bye 50 bucks. appreciate > the > > insight on c++. i intend on learning c++, java, and perl eventually as i > > see they are in the curriculum for the u of m's comp science degree. > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM, <jeremy at lizakowski.com> wrote: > >> > >> >i am in conflict about c c++ or java. no languages > >> > taught yet. still starting out. > >> > >> languages: its easiest to start with a language that is flexible. php, > >> ruby, python, and javascript are decent choices. you can be writing > >> programs in minutes. > >> > >> Java is great to know, but usually better suited for big or well-defined > >> projects. Very formal and organized. Used for android mobile > development. > >> > >> C++ is low level, and better suited for things close to hardware > (writing > >> hardware drivers etc). It can be remarkably difficult to debug. > >> > >> There's also the newer languages, like erlang, scala, etc. There's > always > >> something new to learn. > >> > >> Jeremy > >> > >> > >> > >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Samael <samael.anon at gmail.com> > >> Sender: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > >> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:22:10 > >> To: TCLUG Mailing List<tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > >> Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] mac > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > erik at ekmitchell.com > http://ekmitchell.com/ > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110226/1c9fc9e5/attachment.html>