Most places I visit use web-based applications more and more often. And, in such places, JavaScript developers seem to be in short supply. Alan On Aug 19, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Michael Havens wrote: thank you so much for your help. What would you suggest as a marketable language for me to learn? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > 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 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 (1997) anda java book ( 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~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss