Posted on 02/27/2014 7:57:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I would recommend C++ for the simple reason that it is one of the more difficult to learn. However, it is not impossible, there is LOTS of support on Youtube and the Internet. Enough so that if all you had was an Internet connection and a PC, it is possible to learn it by your own research.
Also, once you master the concepts of C++, the rest of the languages will be easier. If you live / work in a Unix world, PERL would be a good supporting language.
Just my .02
AND VHDL ...
.verilog(VHDL);
Hey! Don’t knock FORTRAN. I worked for a NASA contractor during the Apollo Program. We sent some guys to the moon with punched cards and FORTRAN programs.
I spent my last 5 years or so working mostly in C#. Loved it, and was amazed at what could be done... including real-time video encoding, sockets-level programming and so on. Fun stuff!
Nobody knocking Fortan here.
Three years of development and I've finally got it to print out "Hello Worlh".
Dang it.
RE: I see that MS-BASIC has fallen off the list. Drat. I was just getting the hang of it.
VISUAL BASIC is the next step for you.
It’s extremely popular still...
See here:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-net/visual-basicnet-the-upswing-developers-236082
I learned assembler for the HC11 on my own in 1990 for an ignition timing controller, which I am still selling today (J&S SafeGuard).
Now working on a new project and plan on using a Cypress PSoC processor. The gurus say I need to learn C rather than ARM assembler.
So, I have been bouncing around in tutorial-ville, but it’s strange, after working with assembly for so long.
I hate it when someone looked over my shoulder to look at my codes to solve an engineering problem and say, “You still using that code? It went obsolete six months ago!”
C Programming PDF from Wikibooks.org ..this is pretty good.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/C_Programming.pdf
Friggin Physical Chemistry was the closest I came to having a nervous breakdown in college!
Seriously...I was operating at the extreme edge of what my brain could absorb, and I needed it to graduate.
Fortunately, I was a hard and dedicated student, and my professor looked at me one day and said: “You don’t look well...is there anything I can help you with?”
And he gave me some extra lessons on his own. That was pretty rare.
Thanks, I found that one on a different site a while ago: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming
I have been working my way through an introductory course from Alison.
Oh, yeah. Hit a huge rock with P-Chem. Don’t know what the problem was, either.
C= BASIC, 6502 Bytecode (then someone showed me what an assembler was), 6502 Assembly, PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, PERL, JAVA, C++, Pro-C, Objective C, Ruby, C#, and probably another dozen or more scripting and other languages I have used to accomplish what needed to get done over the years.... Don’t think I’ll ever stop learning new languages, as the need arises.
The more I know, the more options I have. I run into folks all the time who have let their skills rust, even though I mostly code only as a hobby these days, most of my day to day stuff isn’t in the code itself, my pay grade is such that I provide the direction to the coders. Love to code, dream in code, but the pay for a straight coder is below my pay grade anymore.
A person may be a great foxpro coder, but when the company finally decides its had enough of that, and they have no other skill, you are the first ones out the door.
what...no COBOL?
I’m surprised that PHP is doing so poorly. It’s about all I use for my website development.
COBOL ALL THE WAY!
I still use an abicus too.
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