What would you suggest?

**Giant Speck** · August 3rd, 2009

TI-BASIC

**schauerlich** · August 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by Giant Speck

TI-BASIC

Oh god. I hate TI-BASIC.

**Giant Speck** · August 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by EDavidBurg

Oh god. I hate TI-BASIC.

Doing math in math class < Programming in TI-BASIC in math class < Playing Platinum for the TI-92 in math class

**Barnstormer** · August 3rd, 2009

Don't learn C first - It's a minefield. Learn something like Python first where you can achieve results quite quickly and safely. There is a good chance with C that you'll be put off and get frustrated with it much faster. Be good to yourself and pick a proper high level language.

PHP is also not bad if you want to create websites rather than applications.

C is just ASM in drag.

**directhex** · August 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by Barnstormer

Don't learn C first - It's a minefield. Learn something like Python first where you can achieve results quite quickly and safely. There is a good chance with C that you'll be put off and get frustrated with it much faster. Be good to yourself and pick a proper high level language.

PHP is also not bad if you want to create websites rather than applications.

C is just ASM in drag.

PHP is a mess. It encourages messy behaviour by messy minds. It makes "sense" for adding "smartness" to a static HTML page on a per-line basis, but beyond that, the lack of structure or direction causes a big fat messy mess.

**311005901** · August 3rd, 2009

It seems as per the poll votes, Python would be best to start with.
Thanks for all of the input! I'm going out to buy a book today.
I actually wrote some programs in the TI-BASIC.

**Giant Speck** · August 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by 311005901

It seems as per the poll votes, Python would be best to start with.
Thanks for all of the input! I'm going out to buy a book today.
I actually wrote some programs in the TI-BASIC.

TI-BASIC is the only thing I have ever programmed with.

I used to write flash card programs using it. However, due to the limitations of TI-BASIC, I'd download libraries from ticalc.org that would allow me to program special things that I would normally need to learn assembly code for, like text effects and time effects.

**Barnstormer** · August 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by directhex

PHP is a mess. It encourages messy behaviour by messy minds. It makes "sense" for adding "smartness" to a static HTML page on a per-line basis, but beyond that, the lack of structure or direction causes a big fat messy mess.

Are you saying PHP is a mess?

While true it does provide instant gratification in a common context and has C style syntax. But you're right, you shouldn't really take it too seriously, but it's not a bad starting point to learn concepts.