From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T14:06:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie looking for help: Determining Gender

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:35:01PM +0900, Matthew Borgeson wrote:
> Hey Giles-
> 
> I hope this doesn't mean that I didnt waste everyone's time here.
> 
> I learn better from examples, and there werent really any explicit examples 
> in either reference, but implicit ones I had to extract and play around with 
> on my own.
> 
> That being said, after trying Python and C++ by myself and no classes nor 
> budget for M$ development tools, Ruby seemsjust like the tool I need to 
> learn to program.

For my money, the best languages for learning programming on your own are
(depending on what type of programming you want to learn first), in no
particular order:

  Logo
  Perl
  Ruby

Assembly language might also be a good choice, but it takes a pretty
special student to do that *first*.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. 
I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give
you any sugar?