Hi there

I know you get this a lot, but over the past few days i've suddenly had an urge to get motivated and learn more than HTML and CSS. I've used those to for several years now, but that's it. No other languages.

I don't really know what i'd like to achieve with programming, I just want to learn, gain experience and widen my knowledge!

So, any suggestions where to start? Or any advice would be most appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Chris

I found PHP to be a great step toward more programming knowledge. It's probably one of the easiest programming languages, in particular because it doesn't pay much attention to data types. Just get a copy of XAMPP and head over to PHP Tutorial for a great start!

Or if you're interested in JavaScript, that's another option, but I find it's more difficult because when you do something wrong, you don't get an error but rather the code just doesn't work. PHP will alert you to the specific syntax error and the line of code it is on.


Non-web-based languages seem less rewarding to new programmers because it takes lots and lots of practice before you can truly create programs with GUIs and understand what's going on.


Hope this helped.

I agree with Atolar in that PHP is the best language you need to learn, but I disagree about XAMPP. I recommend that you instead use WAMP, which is much faster, sleeker, and doesn't freeze up as often.

I speak from experience, because I was a faithful XAMPP user for several years. However, I eventually got fed up of the server crashing and losing files.

If you're looking for a really good book to learn PHP, check out HeadFirst PHP & MySQL, which covers just about everything.

Good luck!