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☠ðůﾅ⌖ʟḁẘ☠ Jul 29, 2014

What's a good platform to start coding? I liked HTML and Visual Basic back in the day. I'm trying java now. Any suggestions for a noob?
〓 MR71VWBUS 〓 Jul 29, 2014

Pascal or c++
G E T C H Jul 29, 2014

Try Fortran on an IBM System 370 Mainframe. That's what I first learned.

Oops... Am I showing my age again. 😁

However, you can probably pick up a System 370 dirt cheap if you have a spare house to put it in.
G E T C H Jul 29, 2014

"A typical System/370 Model 165 with 1 million bytes of main memory carried a purchase price of $4,674,160."

I'm sure you could get one on discount nowadays. Maybe check BestBuys flyer.
☠ðůﾅ⌖ʟḁẘ☠ Jul 29, 2014

G E T C H wrote:
"A typical System/370 Model 165 with 1 million bytes of main memory carried a purchase price of $4,674,160."

I'm sure you could get one on discount nowadays. Maybe check BestBuys flyer.

Damn looks like the one they had on Mad Men
G E T C H Jul 29, 2014

Haha. Probably was. It was ancient in the 80's. It was donated to the school I went to. They used it for a year, then decided it had no teaching value and used too much space and electricity. Not to mention the cases of punched cards went though to program it. 😜

But it does make one appreciate a 32gig iPhone with touch screen. LOL
ʗɛяέąƖ~ཞɛϮĭཞέⅅ Jul 29, 2014

〓 MR71VWBUS 〓 wrote:
Pascal or c++

COBOL lol
Mystery Jul 30, 2014

〓 MR71VWBUS 〓 wrote:
Pascal or c++

Ugh! They made us learn Pascal my freshman year in high school - 24 years ago. I hated that crap. I swear there was no logic to it.
WanteD_ Jul 30, 2014

I recommend you start with Python

If your completely new to coding Java can be difficult to learn for a first programming language

The platform you use depends on your operating system, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, ect

Defiantly do NOT jump straight into C++
🔥VIVA🔥BELÍAL🔥 Jul 30, 2014

G E T C H wrote:
Try Fortran on an IBM System 370 Mainframe. That's what I first learned.

Oops... Am I showing my age again. 😁

However, you can probably pick up a System 370 dirt cheap if you have a spare house to put it in.

How old are you?
WanteD_ Jul 30, 2014

Mystery wrote:
〓 MR71VWBUS 〓 wrote:
Pascal or c++

Ugh! They made us learn Pascal my freshman year in high school - 24 years ago. I hated that crap. I swear there was no logic to it.
You should be familiar with the good old Commodore 64 😉
Boner Jams '03 Jul 30, 2014

WanteD_ wrote:
I recommend you start with Python

If your completely new to coding Java can be difficult to learn for a first programming language

The platform you use depends on your operating system, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, ect

Defiantly do NOT jump straight into C++

C++ isn't a bad starter, it's what I took in college. All the programmers at work hate Python, but I've never used it. HTML is a good basic one.
☠ðůﾅ⌖ʟḁẘ☠ Jul 30, 2014

WanteD_ wrote:
I recommend you start with Python

If your completely new to coding Java can be difficult to learn for a first programming language

The platform you use depends on your operating system, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, ect

Defiantly do NOT jump straight into C++

Thanks I have all three operating systems but wanted to focus more on Mac OS stuff. I honestly kept thinking c++ was the way to go . There's a web site called codeschool.com that makes programming very understandable .
༦ᵑᘆͦøͫɴͣҡͩƑıʂӈ༤ Jul 30, 2014

Ruby?
✯ᐪᑋᵋᎪᏒᏟᎻᎪƝᎶᏋᏝ✯ Jul 30, 2014

I've used Visual Basic. I'm not an expert but it seemed self explanatory to me.
mango12 Jul 31, 2014

Just watch the movie hackers. Thats what i did. And not to toot my own horn but i can use inspect element