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| Thread ID: 99639 | 2009-05-09 05:59:00 | What programming language should I learn? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 772460 | 2009-05-10 06:03:00 | Another vote for Somebody's comment above - he's hit the nail on the head in my opinion. Learning how to program 'properly' is far more important than what language you do it in. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 772461 | 2009-05-10 06:18:00 | if you're good with html then integrating php into it isnt all that difficult theres heaps of help online for it. But it is mainly web based so that limits your windows applications You are right - PHP is easy to pick up, and there are tons of resources online. However, PHP is one of those languages which are easy to get wrong. If you start off with PHP, you'll be quite likely to develop some bad coding habits, which will then be difficult to get rid of. For example, you could easily "hack" together a simple database driven website with very little effort or prior experience, but the code will be shoddy, insecure, and will never translate to a "good" application. If you start off with a more "restrictive" (I can't think of a better word for it right now, so that'll have to do) language, then it will force you to learn how to do things right. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 772462 | 2009-05-10 06:25:00 | Start with writing flowcharts to achieve a desired result. The language does not matter as much as developing good logical design. Put validation routines in to cater for results that are plain wrong like what happens if a data entry field expects a date and the clerk types in 32/05/2009. As there is no such date then the code should demand re-entry of that field or at least throw up an error. Cater for idiot users of your programmes. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 772463 | 2009-05-10 06:36:00 | Cater for idiot users of your programmes. That's always fun... |
somebody (208) | ||
| 772464 | 2009-05-10 07:15:00 | Yup, I will see how far I'll go with C#. | Renmoo (66) | ||
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