Solve : Programming Basic?

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Answer» Hello everybody, I am curious about programming I want to know it even a basic and I want to learn how to program too. Is there any ideas what site that best for me as a beginner. Easy to learn. Thanks You did not say how old you are. Hope this does not HURT you feelings. The following link is for 'kids' and is very easy. Adults ALSO allowed. Quote Small Basic: Programming Is Fun Microsoft Small Basic puts the fun back into computer programming. With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx Quote It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. The above quotation is from Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 More of the context... Quote # PL/I --"the fatal DISEASE"-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. # It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. # The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. For the rest of the document... http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html I personally learned COBOL, BASIC and PL/1 early in my programming career. Therefor I am obviously a mental train wreck.Quote It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. You have exposure to BASIC, so are you mentally mutilated?While I am certainly not an expert programmer or anything, I learned Visual Basic 6 first then progressed to C++ and then to Java. I find that Java is the one I prefer for actual programming. But if you want to do some really fun stuff like making a slot machine, or a stop LIGHT that really works or even a simple calculator. Basic is the way to go for beginners you can make the GUI fast and easy and the programs are very simple to learn. Good luck, and have fun.

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Hello everybody,

I am curious about programming I want to know it even a basic and I want to learn how to program too. Is there any ideas what site that best for me as a beginner. Easy to learn.

Thanks You did not say how old you are. Hope this does not HURT you feelings. The following link is for 'kids' and is very easy. Adults ALSO allowed.
Quote

Small Basic: Programming Is Fun
Microsoft Small Basic puts the fun back into computer programming. With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

The above quotation is from
Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975
More of the context...
Quote

# PL/I --"the fatal DISEASE"-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
# It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
# The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.

For the rest of the document...
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

I personally learned COBOL, BASIC and PL/1 early in my programming career. Therefor I am obviously a mental train wreck.Quote

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

You have exposure to BASIC, so are you mentally mutilated?While I am certainly not an expert programmer or anything, I learned Visual Basic 6 first then progressed to C++ and then to Java. I find that Java is the one I prefer for actual programming. But if you want to do some really fun stuff like making a slot machine, or a stop LIGHT that really works or even a simple calculator. Basic is the way to go for beginners you can make the GUI fast and easy and the programs are very simple to learn. Good luck, and have fun.

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