Help please programming for housebound son

Andy_L

Open University is another option if he wants to understand the how & why behind programming as well, rather than just writing code. As he's housebound he may even be able to get funding.

http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/computing-and-ict/index.htm

Fuzzy_Logic_2

Alpha47 wrote: »

Hello

Can anybody tell me what is the best way to learn programming. This is for my 24 year old who has severe ME/CFS and has been housebound for 10 years. It is progress that he actually wants to learn programming now, but he cannot access college yet. He is bright. Will programming for dummies do? Or will it just put him off.

It all depends on what sort of things that he wants to program, websites or software. Web wise go for HTML, CSS, XTML or JS. Software wise go for Delphi, C++ or VB.Net. There are plenty of online sites and also youtube can be a valuable aid in learning any new skill, he might prefer to watch videos as well as reading books. I'm a self taught programmer so if I can do it then I'm sure he will be fine.
If you need any more advice then feel free to ask

Lokolo

I am currently a Software Engineer. I did this order.

Self Taught
HTML
CSS
PHP
School
QuickBasic
Uni
Java
C
C#
C++
Work
Perl

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C# I have found easiest. You can also use C# to make XNA Games for both Computers and Xbox which makes it very enjoyable.

flywebdesign

Hi, I had a go at web-based software development at Uni and the lecturer was into Visual Basic... so that's what we were taught. We used Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and its a way of creating advanced web pages with relative ease. There is still a lot to it but it cuts out a lot of the "hard coding" that programmer write.

There is a book i have bought to get which is very helpful as well: ASP.NET 2.0 - Visual Web Developer 2005, Express Edition (Starter Kit)

It runs you through creating a database driven website and has a cd to download a fully functional website from.

I would definately recommend it

DVardysShadow

Avoid Visual Basic, it is a bit of a dead end. These days you will only get it as VB.net - and you will get C++.net and C#.net as equivalents. Get C#.net or C++.net.

flywebdesign

DVardysShadow,

flywebdesign

... do you think its worth switching over to C++ or C#.net then? What programming software do you use?

DCFC79

I found html easy to pick up when i was at college, this is coming from a newbie at programming

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flywebdesign wrote: »

... do you think its worth switching over to C++ or C#.net then? What programming software do you use?

Go for C#, it's easy to pick up and create programs without going into some of the more complex areas that you'd find in C++. Although, once you've become proficient in C#, learn C++ as it is easily the most powerful language available and it won't be that difficult to pick up once you're familiar with C#.

I mainly develop in C++, however we do use C# on some occasions.

DVardysShadow

flywebdesign wrote: »

DVardysShadow,

flywebdesign wrote: »

... do you think its worth switching over to C++ or C#.net then? What programming software do you use?

Without a doubt. A sizeable chunk of modern programming languages are based on the syntax of C - Java comes to mind immediately. It means that if you are into the mindset, then it is easier to become productive with another language from the family.

I use GNU C for console type progs and GNU or proprietary C for embedded work. I have done a bit of Java and some C# - although I don't do Windows very much if I can help it.