Question! Not mine, a friend's.

[TheUltimateNewbie]

My friend wants to know what the first programming language you should learn first. Any tips would be helpful. Thanks.

[Grizzly]

I started with C, just plain ol' C. Anything else if just uncivilized :p

In all seriousness though...C's good because it doesn't teach you any bad habits, it forces you to think like a programmer, and it introduces you to just about everything. Once you get comfortable, learn how to implement advanced data structures in C, and toy around with advanced sorting algorithms.

Once you nail C down, move on to C++ or Java and learn the joys of OOP.

That to me...is a recipe for a good programmer.

[TheUltimateNewbie]

Originally posted by Grizzly
I started with C, just plain ol' C. Anything else if just uncivilized :p

In all seriousness though...C's good because it doesn't teach you any bad habits, it forces you to think like a programmer, and it introduces you to just about everything. Once you get comfortable, learn how to implement advanced data structures in C, and toy around with advanced sorting algorithms.

Once you nail C down, move on to C++ or Java and learn the joys of OOP.

That to me...is a recipe for a good programmer.

Thanks a lot Grizzly. :)

[LxMxFxD]

I started in Eiffel! haha. Good luck. C is a better choice. Once you learn one language, its just syntax changes in future languages. Its pretty neat stuff.

Lx