Where to Start in Programming

What language to learn first?

I've heard many people asking which programming language should they learn first.

The best programming language to learn first is python. Why? because its so easy and simple compared to many other languages. The first language you learn is the most important language you will learn. Simply because it is were you get your basic fundamentals of programming from. Don't just learn the basics of python and leave and go to a new language. Learn as much as you can until your able to program frequently and if learned correctly you can move on to any other programming language you want with no problem, since every programming language are the same epset they have different syntax.

You can start with c/c++ like everyone else says because they are real powerful languages but you would struggle more with them then with python, and then like many people have done quit on programming because they say its too hard or boring.

Learning the basics and moving up

Before you even start thinking of a programming language you want to learn, start off with the basic terms every programming language consist of.

These definitions should be memorized because it will help in learning any language.

a "Variable" is a word or abbreviation that contains a value
a "statement" is a line of code that performs a command
a "constant" is like a variable except the value cannot change
an "array" is like a variable only holding many values instead of one(like a database)
a "declaration" is the act of declaring something
an "expression" is a statement that performs a calculation or results in a value
an "operator" is what is used to perform an expression
"truncation" is the result of rounding off the fractional part of a number
"demotion" occurs when reducing the size of a value
"promotion" is the exact opposite as demotion
a "comment" is a way to make notes in your code, and to instruct the parsing engine to ignore these lines
"branch" is know as an if or if/else statement
the "break" statement tells the code to exit the loop
a "loop" is a way to repeat code which are known to be while, do...while, for, and foreach
a "function" is a block of code that can be called at any point in the script
"scope" more or less refers to what can be accessed and where

Learning these before you learn a programming language will really help making your life easier learning a programming since after all a programming language only does what it is instructed to do, nothing more, and nothing less. In tutorials when given an example of a code manage to know what every specific line of code in the script is doing.

If you do plan to learn python then a very good tutorial for begginers is dive into python. google it and get started with it right away.

I will be posting more programming tutorials so keep on visiting.... ^_^