ninjaMAR wrote:

if you like html,I would learn Java or JavaScript

CDrampage123 wrote:

Just so you know i am not that experienced in coding, I know a little bit of html, css,(both web design languages) javascript,and python (more of what your thinking of). And from what I know python is the most like scratch and is the most simple, althought javascript isn't that complicated either. if you want good tutorials check out https://www.w3schools.com/ this is how I learned. You should also learn some basic html and css, they are very easy to learn.

k9chelsea2 wrote:

learn C++

goldfish678 wrote:

Try this; it'll help with JS with ProcessingJS 1.4.7.

Greg8128 wrote:

I recommend C; it's simple but you'll learn a lot.

Java, Go and Rust are also good languages to learn.

Vaibhs11 wrote:

Greg8128 wrote:

I recommend C; it's simple but you'll learn a lot.

Java, Go and Rust are also good languages to learn.

greatest lie I have ever heard

Greg8128 wrote:

Vaibhs11 wrote:

Greg8128 wrote:

I recommend C; it's simple but you'll learn a lot.

Java, Go and Rust are also good languages to learn.

greatest lie I have ever heard

C is very simple in the sense that it does not require the programmer to understand a giant amount of concepts. There are functions, data types, pointers and little else. Understanding pointers just means having a basic idea of how computer memory is used (what goes on the stack, what goes on the heap, etc). Other languages also use pointers but hide them with complex and/or slow abstractions. Other languages are often built around OOP, which is much more difficult to understand and usually not very useful for small programs.

Vaibhs11 wrote:

Greg8128 wrote:

Vaibhs11 wrote:

Greg8128 wrote:

I recommend C; it's simple but you'll learn a lot.

Java, Go and Rust are also good languages to learn.

greatest lie I have ever heard

C is very simple in the sense that it does not require the programmer to understand a giant amount of concepts. There are functions, data types, pointers and little else. Understanding pointers just means having a basic idea of how computer memory is used (what goes on the stack, what goes on the heap, etc). Other languages also use pointers but hide them with complex and/or slow abstractions. Other languages are often built around OOP, which is much more difficult to understand and usually not very useful for small programs.

It's great because you can do many things but it's not quite of a beginner language

• C. Pointer errors may be hard to debug. On the bright side, learning C means learning a bit about how computer code works.
  
• Java / C#: Great error detection, but OOP boilerplate is unnecessary for beginners.
  
• Scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, etc): Many errors are only caught in the runtime, if at all. This makes tracking them down very difficult.
  

potatophant wrote:

Probably JavaScript (eww) or C#. It's quite easy to learn basic HTML/JavaScript.

Vaibhs11 wrote:

potatophant wrote:

Probably JavaScript (eww) or C#. It's quite easy to learn basic HTML/JavaScript.

Remove the eww.

Vaibhs11 wrote:

yep, I agree CSS and HTML is cool

9gr wrote:

I think the best way is to starting to learn lua, then js, then python.

• C and Rust: Can produce extremely fast code due to having very little abstraction.
  
• Java and C#: Have a bit of abstraction in the form of OOP, but still run very quickly.
  
• Functional languages (like Haskell): Can produce extremely optimized code thanks to optimizations possible in functional programming.
  
• Lisp-like languages: Can use macros to do an extremely wide range of stuff
  
• Prolog: A logical programming language used in AI.
  
• Stack-oriented langauges (such as Forth): fun to use, also good for understanding stack machines