Hi everyone I know you get this alot but can anyone please help. I'm staying in a town that doesn't give programming classes only IT like A+ N+ and so on. I was wondering can anyone please help me with a book on beginner programming please? I really don't know anything about programming but would really like to become a programmer please. So if anyone can help me so that I would be abel to learn on my own just to see if I can do it then I could go to the colleage in the next town to get my papers. I was wondering would C# be good to start with or what do you guys think?

you are best doing a cross-platform language like java or python to start out with
look for "herbert schildt complete reference" of the language you chose, I think you just cant beat that.
take a look at my threads first to learn about the architectures.
you should pm me the final choice, if I know the language I will tel lyou and you can pm me links to the thread/questions.

Hi guys,

I need some help with my programming. I started my class couple weeks ago and i got to the point where i am suppose to make a blackjack game in python. the game must be simple. i imported the random module and what i have to do next is to tell python to randomly select one card between 1-10 inclusive and another card between 1-11 inclusive, add the both together and print the result, i kind of got that part ready but its not working exactly how i want it to. than the next thing i have to do is to randomly select a hand between 1-21 which would be the dealers hand, ones i have that print the result, use the if statement in case 1 if the player wins display a message that states the player is a winner, case 2 if dealer wins display dealer is a winner, case 3 if there is a tie. at the end i would want to add a statement that would say if you would like to continue to play type y for yes and n for no or something like that.

Can somebody help me with this? or at least put me on the rite track i have some of the code started but its not working the way i want.

Thanks

And also another thing, can someone explain me the if, else, elif statements i kind of got stuck there and thats why i cant really get it moving.

Thanks

I don't really know what else to explain about it: Python - IF...ELIF...ELSE and Nested IF Statements

I'd suggest beginning with Java or Python, they are very easy to learn, and you get the feel of programming with them because the language is put in such a delicate/kind format for you, so that you can comprehend it in a lighter kind of level, if you get what the hell I'm babbling about?
If you're one of those that like challenges, and has the gift of comprehending and learning easily, then C/C++ would be very appropriate.
(If you're a freaking genius then go learn ASM and Fortran as first and secondary language, that stuff is bitchin')

- Cheers