programming

[Michael Havens]

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 <adayley at gmail.com> 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 <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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