Re: Starting with programming

I have been working with Java for more than 15 years and I absolutely love it. I believe however that Java is no longer suitable for beginners.

As a beginner you can learn a lot about programming from the official Java tutorials, as well as from well written books, but once you enter the 'real' world, Java is very much about plumbing, requiring extensive knowledge about all sorts of api's and tools. 

Javascript on the other hand, is a lot more versatile today than it used to be and increasingly popular. With Javascript you can do anything from web front-ends to apps and backend logic, without all the plumbing of Java.

My advice would be to start out looking at some Javascript tutorials, and see where that takes you. https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript looks like pretty good place to start.

At some point you will probably have to look into HTML and CSS also, but to begin with, you can get pretty far with Javascript only.

Good luck ...

/Brian

Den mandag den 17. august 2015 kl. 01.37.16 UTC+2 skrev nick belterman:

I would like to get started with programming. does anyone know good software that is good for learning. BTW i am 14.

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