Basics of programming

Question

Programming

Friends!

I have never been a programmer and it is unlikely that I will ever become one, but sometimes it becomes necessary to develop the simplest application software for my needs. I don’t want to pay for it, because it’s not worth it, but it would be nice to have it on hand.

Therefore, the question arose of how to comprehend the basics of programming on their own.

So the question is - what is better to read and what is faster and easier to write on?
Let me remind you once again that the level of knowledge should hardly exceed the first course of the Computer Science specialty of any institute.

Answer 1

Look towards C#. It turns out to write a small application software for yourself very quickly. It comes with the best IDE and tons of documentation with examples.

Answer 2

Interested in specifically applied Windows programming? You can try Delphi, pretty easy to understand thing, tutorial .

Answer 3

Try python with tkinterem (if it's just for small needs).
www.khanacademy.org/#computer-science

Answer 4

The easiest way under windows, I think, is c#, in principle, the language is simpler than c++, it is unnecessary to monitor memory, etc.

Answer 5

All the same, you need to read the basics ... I remember in my first year I muddied a notebook on Turbo Pascal, it fell out with a stack overflow if I used it for a while. There's a bunch of procedure calls... So be sure to read the basics.

Answer 6

I join those who advise Python. In his tutorial on the official website, it is just written that he can help very well as a scripting language. You can learn quickly, there are a lot of modules right away and it doesn’t matter if you work on Windows, Mac or GNU / Linux - Python will be there.
PS And it's worth learning English :)

Answer 7

Due to little karma I can't even write a question!!!
So let the community ask here, because the topic is similar ...
I had a situation at work when I needed to switch from python, php to Java (requalification). But I don’t have particularly good knowledge of Java, I only wrote hello worlds and algorithms in Java at competitions, but I never wrote anything else. Now I'm studying SWT, I found tutorials, but you won't really learn the language itself and its features and GENERAL features of OOP there. At work, when I showed my code to my superiors, it almost killed me ... Like: why do you call the main functions in the object constructor, why this way and not otherwise ... In short, I would like to learn Java, only at a slightly higher level, can you tell me which books, pdf or what online?
Thank you very much.
PS: karma sucks!

Answer 8

I think that we should look at C# and Delphi and choose what you like best. There is also a version of Visual Basic.

Answer 9

It seems to me that Python is not very suitable for writing graphical applications. And it will certainly be more difficult than in Delphi.
Otherwise, I agree, Python is a great language. I use it myself sometimes.

Answer 10

In my school years, I started writing utilities like this - I downloaded similar programs in source codes and edited them to get the desired functionality, add a couple of useful features, remove unnecessary items from the menu, etc.
But over time, it turned out that it was difficult to find the necessary program in the source code, so in the first year I had to urgently learn the disassembler in order to edit the code right away. So I, unwittingly, became a "hacker" and a "computer genius" in one bottle.
When the institute ended, they left me as a computer genius to work at the department, and now this “hacking” really bothers me.
Firstly, according to an old habit, it is much easier for me to see and correct other people's mistakes than to write something sensible myself. And you have to write a lot and quickly.
And secondly, when my supervisor moved to work abroad, he did not hire me, although he could have patted me in front of foreign employers, because, as he said in parting: “Remember, Kostantin, once and for all - in America hackers are not needed.
And, as always, he's right. I realized this especially strongly a couple of days ago when I read that one 46-year-old American was jailed for 18 years for hacking WiFi.

Answer 11

For some reason, no one advised JavaScript. Even strange somehow.
Firstly, in order to program on it, you do not need to install ANYTHING on your computer! Everything is already there. By the way, on Windows, knowledge of JavaScript is very useful for administration in JScript.