programming

[Alan Dayley]

http://codeacademy.com has free classes for much of the basics in
several languages. They just added Python. Look to see if that fits
your learning goals.

Alan

On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering..... how do you find the free kindle books and I was hoping to find a book that would teach programming from the ground up with exercises and stuff like that. Free is about all I can afford with two kids and being on disability and all the crap that is going on in my life! WHat is a good language to start learning? I remember that a friend of mine who went to Devry in 91 the first language he learned was Pascal. Is that a good language to start with or should I rather start with something more useful? Like maybe Java or Javascript or would you recommend something else? This is going to be completely a home study thing. I do have a Python book for python2.1  by Deitel, Liperi, and Weidermann (copywrite 02). I think  I will work out of that unless you think it is too old. Please don't ask what I want to do with whatever I learn because right now I don't know what the possibilities of learning a language (be it Python, DHTML, or whatever). You know what, I also have a DHTML book (<c>1997) anda java book (<c> 96) that are really old. Do you think I should use them? Yeah, I'm thinking HTML and Java are more practical. I can offer to program things for people. What do you think I should do?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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