What is the easiest way to learn programming?

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What is the easiest programming language to learn? Can someone give me a good place to start? I had started to read a book on “Beginning Programming” but it was not a very good book overall. I learned HTML recently if that helps at all. Thanks!

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Answer by Laura S
www.w3schools.com
Cruise that website for a while, pick a language, and go. They have great sample code that you can play with and run without having to setup your own environment.

Answer by David
I started watching tutorials from thenewboston.com and boy is it great…

It’s this programming genius guy who has a great sense of humor and Is an amazing teacher. He’s great for beginners and great for experienced programmers.

Start by learning Java if you want to be an application developer

Start by learning XHTML and CSS if you want to be a web developer.

I’m serious, it’s a great tutorial website!

Answer by Sangkaran Vilu
I would say start with HTML. HTML is the easiest do far (my opinion). Learn up HTML and CSS. Then move on to C programming. Once you have learned C programming, it’s going to be easy if you when you get into PHP, ASP, C++, VB, JAVA. C can be said to be the basic of all(the methods). The codes are all different but if you know C, it will be easier.

Good luck!

Answer by Nguyen
With beginner, You should learning with www.w3schools.com

Answer by garryricketson
Qbasic is about the simplest,easiest to learn to start,at least in my opinion. Html is ok if you want to design web pages, but is not really programming, it is web design, both are interesting and useful.
Here is one place to start, there are many,
https://weeklyqbasicandqb64lesson.smfforfree.com/
I started, at PetesQBsite, there are alot of tutorials available there also,…
Start out simple, and work your way up …
Good luck from Garry

Answer by WebDesignerScotty
HTML is a formatting language, not a programming language. Progamming language has structures for flow of data (if/then/else statements for example).

Sam’s Publishing has great books, like ‘Teach Yourself XXX in 24 hours”.

A great language to start out with is C

Answer by Dan
The “For dummies” series is a good set of books to check out for programming.

To some extent , O’Reilly series is as well but not so much for beginners (that’s why I say to some extent)

Someone recommended to you the new boston – which I agree with.

I also recommend net.tutsplus.com

And of course, w3 schools too.

Focus on what your goals will be as a programmer. Do you want to develop websites, software, applications…?

PhP is a good one for websites based on my experiences.

This is an intro to PhP: