Best way to learn programming?

Any advice?

I prefer Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (2nd Edition).

That really depends on the language you want to learn! If you want to learn a language like asp and php then I suggest you take a look at on of the tutorials on www.w3schools.com.

For Delphi and C++ it's not that easy, because they are more complicated.

I personally do not believe that you can learn C in 24 Hours and that's the same with Borland Delphi.

If you have no experience with programming at all, start with PHP or Visual Basic, work from there. PHP is nice to know because you can do very much with it and there's plenty of information about it on the web. I personally used www.php.net very often...

i don't know PHP, but c the the language to start with.
its a procedural language so you get used to the methodology of programming.
find tutorials with small puzzles and you will try to enjoy programmin in this language.
when i coes to learning just deidea small project say: to check input if its only no. or so and then go on finding and coding different methods. . because when you make a mistake and then rectify it you remember i better.

I'd advice against bothering with VB - it's good for school students doing projects, and just playing about, but it tend to teach bad habits and isn't really scalable.

As stated - it depends what you want to do, if your aiming for working on the web, then go for PHP, easy to learn, and does a heck of a lot.

A good, free, book is:


Else go for C++ - pick up a good book from your local bookstore, but avoid the "we can teach you everything you'll ever need to know to be a C++ expert in a day/week/month"-type, not worth the paper their written on unless you just want a good, basic, overview.

I think you should just learn C++. Get a text book from a college book store and read some.
When you are familiar with C++, you should dip into VB6 just to see how easy programming could be.
VB6 isn't just for students. It is very useful for quick deployment, with a small memory footprint. It is worth playing with to understand a little about visual languages

i'll leave the programming to my gf... i'll just do the testing of the code

who wants to read books on computer programming! its boring as hell and unless you understand the basics theres really no point. the best way to learn if from experiance, many programms with programming involved in them have an index kinda thing where you can find simple lines of code that they think you might need, and once you look at that you can see patterns in how the language works and figure out the basic ideas behind it, and then you can use logic to figure out what you needa know, and doing things that way is Much faster than trying to memorise a whole book. i mean, yeah, it'd probably be a good idea to have a book with info and examples in it for when you get stuck, and sometimes you can find stuff on the net about different programming languages, but overall its more interesting to figure things out for yourself, seriously, if people keep getting everything from books, then i don know about you but im just gonna forget programming and go write a book called 'how to live your life' then retire from the zillions id make off it. lol

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Books are good for reference only, learning is something you have to do yourself. Tutorials are good to get a quick jump-start on a new language, as long as they are short. I think there are two questions here. Are you trying to learn programming or a new programming language? In case of first, you need quite some time to understand the way things work, one year is not enough, let alone 24 hours. It takes patience for programming skills to improve, and with experience you will be able to write more and more complex applications. If you find it enjoyable, it can be quite rewarding, otherwise it will be very frustrating .