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Hi guys..

I want to learn programming. Can anyone point me to any tutorial website or webpage where i can learn about programming.

I don't know a thing about programming. But I always am interested in making programs someday. A basic tutorial in programming will also do. I tried the net search, but lots of options to choose from. Need an all-in-one site where i can learn about programming and install stuffs in my PC and try it myself.

You should at least have ideas which language and plattform you have in mind. For the most adviseable (imho) GNU C, there are posted serveral tutorials already. The benefit of GNU C: its portable to almost any common platform.

Buy a book (really). I know that for me, tutorials were never as good as getting a book and read it. "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie is a pretty good book for someone who wants to learn C. It's easy enough for a beginner to understand, yet it doesn't treat you like you were a complete retard.

theres a right tool for the right job, depends on what you want to do with your programming. if you are just starting out, picking up something easy to learn the basic constructs of programming (if then, loops, logic, functions, variables) then i would suggest something that you dont need to compile to get going.

this will speed up your "test to see if your program works", getting you faster results. for general purpose, you can try to pick up a scripting language called Perl. the syntax you learn here will be applicable to most major programming languages.

i suggest you by a tutorial ebook in programming language so that you can study it very well

I'd also suggest a book or an e-book.
If you can't find anything on google, try wikipedia. Wikipedia is great if you know exactly what you're searching for, Google sort of ... well I dunno.... I'll just shut up because I don't really know what I'm talking about
Anyway yeah, ebook or book.

prince wrote:Hi guys..
I want to learn programming. Can anyone point me to any tutorial website or webpage where i can learn about programming.

What language you want you learn?
What do you want to make?

Further, just use Google!

I have found a good tutorial for if you want to learn C++ (Actually Raven found it and I sorta stole it ) but anyway, here it is:

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http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/

prince wrote:Hi guys..

I want to learn programming. Can anyone point me to any tutorial website or webpage where i can learn about programming.

I don't know a thing about programming. But I always am interested in making programs someday. A basic tutorial in programming will also do. I tried the net search, but lots of options to choose from. Need an all-in-one site where i can learn about programming and install stuffs in my PC and try it myself.

This should get you rolling:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:C_plus_plus

prince wrote:Hi guys..

I want to learn programming. Can anyone point me to any tutorial website or webpage where i can learn about programming.

Try SICP http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/. I'd rather read the book than the website. Don't take it wrong: the book is not about programming Lisp, but just on programming. It uses a small subset of the programming language, just what's needed to teach programming ideas/techniques/paradigms, so it's usefull for programming tasks in any programming language.

Regards
Thomas

Just a book suggestion, I've found that the SAMS 24 Hour books are really nice for getting started with programming. That's what I used to get started with Perl, and I found that it was very easy to understand and use. Once I had read through that, any resource I needed was easily found and understandable from the language's man pages.