Want to learn programming

[Fkacn_tt]

i want to get into program but i don't know where to start, would like to start at the basics and work my way up. ANY ADVICE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED

[Crixx_Creww]

uh... go to school??

[Eroo]

If you absolutely want to start from scratch then I'd suggest you start by learning pascal. You can try a compiler like freepascal. Google pascal tutorials, any one should give you a good starting point.

[Nephilim]

Well, it depends on where you intend to go with your programming. If you want to learn absolutely everything, Eroo setting you on the right track. If you're sticking to windows and you not planning to branch into writing your own *nix distro or anything, then take a gander at M$'s Visual Express editions. I recommend the Visual Basic Express edition its a very english-like type code and you can learn to write simple programs very quickly.

http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ has some good resources (not free *hint hint*)

[UltimateGamer]

But not only windows or everything as WASD said, there is application programming(C, Java, Pascal, Assembly) or web programming which then splits into client side(xhtml, javascript, css, ajax etc) or server side using(php, sql, asp etc).

My advice, pick a specialty field,
web client side is the easiest <-- if you can't learn html don't bother being a programmer,
MS visual basic is the easiest (app.) < if you can't learn this then don't bother being a programmer.

At sbcs there are introduction to java and object oriented programming short courses that run year round.
(If you start with java and understand it, everything else programming wise becomes easy except assembly).

Don't bother with assembly unless you are mathematically inclined.

finally, you have to do alot of work on your own and practice and experiment with code alot. And you have to have a genuine love for programming or you just get lost is the functions, methods, data types, semi-colons, conditional statements, looping statements, correct syntax,
case sensitivity an objects that comes with programming.

Well thats the advice from one programmer to an wannabe programmer. I will be glad to answer any of your questions.

[Fkacn_tt]

will try out what you guys posted and see how i do

[shivadee]

Depends where you wanna go with programing

They start us out on Java/Visual Basic and now moving to C++ and Action Script etc etc

[EmpireKing]

buy a book an start experimenting.....that worked for me

or u can go an do CXC I.T (gen) with lessons

[Fkacn_tt]

finally focused on learning how to make scripts for use with exploits, went on metasploit but did not understand what they where talking about.

[vivman1107]

This looks like an interesting site:

http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

It teaches programming concepts using Python (which is free to download). Any programmer will tell you that all programming is basically the same/similar aside from the syntax used.