On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:32 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > If one has to start from the scratch, from the zeroth level to do the > programing, which programing language one should start with? My first programming experience started with Coco-TRS80 basic. Then I knew I will love computers. But as amazed as I was, I was hungry to learn the guts of programming. Lucky me, I was introduced to the Norton Pink Shirt Book. Wow. Learning Pascal, Cobol and Fortran in one year, with 12 years old turned to be a piece of cake. C would follow. The book deals mainly with simple hardware of those ages and a little bit of 8086 assembler, AFAIR. Knowing all of that, understanding Basic, C or any programming paradigm turned to be easy for me. Then I worked for 15 years. A couple of years ago, on vacation, I read the "C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, and made all exercises, just for fun. That's another beautiful book. That's my history. I would advise to start from the low level: study a bit of hardware, to be able to learn C or/and Assembler (low level programming, maybe you can skip assembler, or just read some code). After, enjoying high-level language programming (java, informix, perl, php, python, etc.) will be your prize. (If anyone has a pdf copy of the Pink-Shirt Book, I would thank if mailed, my original is 5000 miles away :) Cheers! ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo - nospaze@xxxxxxxxx otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- Rich Kulawiec -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
