Beginning Programmer Here

[tech_guy78]

I work for an software company currently and do support for our product. I studied to be a IT support/specialist but have little knowledge of programming. Our software is basically done over the web. We offer web finance software for check cashing stores and title loan store. Out software has really taken off the past two years. The thing is I want top get over to the development side of the business but have little training in programming. We are a small outfit of about 10 staff and out two developers have little time to sit with me and spend the time it would take me to learn the different languages we use; vb.net, javascript, css, html, sql. Can someone please give em some advise or tutorial links for beginners on some of these languages please!!!!!!!!!

 

[nickmannawar]

Welcome to the forums. Just how beginner are you? Like how much experience have you had, and with what language?

 

[tech_guy78]

I have no experience at all.

 

[nickmannawar]

I have no experience at all.

Well if you have a good bit of time, then you might want to start out with a starter language that's simple to understand. I started out with python 2.7 because it helps you with commands. You should do some research on deciding which language you want to start with. When you find one, tell me what it is, and I'm sure me and the others on this forums will be glad to help you out with it.

 

[kmote]

Ask one of the developers nicely to do an export and send you the code. Then use your lunch hours to first set up a database & environment/IDE so that you can compile it and have it running on your computer then find something in the application you want to fix or improve.

 

[rinomasari]

You can check the following website , smple tutorial available for vb.net , c# , asp.net and ajax.

Net-Informations.Com - Free online resource for Microsoft .NET developers

c#

C# Tutorial , C# Help , C# Source Code

vb.net

VB.NET Tutorial , VB.NET Help , VB.NET Source Code

asp.net

ASP.NET Tutorial , ASP.NET Help and ASP.NET Source Code in VB.NET and C#

Hope this will help you for a good start in computer programming.

 

[karl_ranseier]

a source for vb.net code snippets: VB.NET Snippets

get a copy of "Visual Studio 2010 Express" (vb.net version). Its freeware and a great development environment.
vb.net is a good starter programming language at all

 

[carnageX]

That entirely depends on what market you're going into.. Banks still use Cobol for many of their applications. Many lower-level languages are still in use by large commercial companies. It's good to learn low-level languages as well as high-level languages, so you don't restrict yourself to only a high-level language.

 

[NobleGoldKnight]

Hi guys ,

Just wanted to let you guys know that I too exploring the possibility of programming and wanting to learn the wonders of the "code" found this thread very helpful.

 

[desimundo]

HTML is a very easy language to learn. However I am fully aware that it takes years to completely master it. But for a beginner there are some very very useful examples on http://www.w3schools.com.
Once you have a basic understanding of HTML and can make a basic, static page, then start with CSS (also found on w3schools). CSS is also a very easy language to learn, and is not very complicated at all (less so than HTML, but obviously you'll need to learn HTML first.