Language Program
What language do you recommend if you want to learn how to program?
Assuming a person knows nothing about programming, but wants to begin learning, what programming language would be the easiest, yet most effective, introduction to coding?
Which language is easier to transition from when trying to learn other languages?
Are there any languages to avoid?
Where can one learn about and how to program, and tutorials on different programming languages, maybe even a pros and cons site about individual programming languages?
Anyways, thanks for any help you cool kids can offer!
Python is a good beginners language.
http://python.org/
It is OO, so it is relatively easy to transition to other OO languages from it.
There are lots of languages to avoid, BrainFuck is an obvious one.
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/
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