I learned how to program at the junior college and the university.  I started in academia in 1983 with punch cards. From my experience I would recommend learning how to program by learning straight old C. If your really apply yourself and really learn C you will have a better go of things when working with other languages. Assembler is a good idea as well.  You may never use it however it will give you some interesting insight. Stay away from Object Oriented Programming until you master C. Then learn OOP.

On 2015-03-01 23:47, Michael Havens wrote:

I am tackling a hard task. I was talking with someone on IRC and this
is part of the exchange we had:

<bmike1> I've decided I need to learn scripting before I do the other
wargames
<bmike1> what do you think? BASH or Python?
<doskop> both have their applications
<doskop> although I hardly use advanced bash scripts to solve
challenges
<doskop> so I'd go for python
<doskop> if you're interested in the other overthewire wargames...
understanding php is pretty much a requirements for natas

<doskop> for the other OTW wargames, some understanding of C, C++
and/or assembly is very useful

So I need to learn a few things.
Does anyone have any personal experience with learning any of these on
your own or have you gone through a book and thought, 'Gosh, I wish
they would have taught me that way.' If so please, share with the
class.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

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