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Charles Allhands  
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From: Charles Allhands <allhand...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 00:02:42 -0500
Local: Sun, Oct 7 2012 1:02 am
Subject: Re: [S67 Public] Best First Programming Language?
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I'm by no means an expert but for what it's worth, I'd say if she's
learning "for fun" to explore a new way of thinking I'd suggest scheme or
smalltalk. If she's doing it to build a simple project she has in mind I'd
lean towards python. All of these have excellent learning resources
available for free online. I'd probably suggest a completely different
route if she was learning programming to get a job.

-Charles
On Oct 6, 2012 9:12 PM, "Jesse Robinson" <colec...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My wife is considering learning a programming language, just for fun, and
> I've been mulling over what to have her start.  She has no programming
> experience.  Here are my thoughts

> I'm thinking VB.net or C# only because I think Visual Studio makes it
> easier to learn a language and also gives you quick gratification because
> of the auto gui it does.  Just drop a button on a form, double click, add
> some code and you can see what it does.  I'm leaning VB vs C# only because
> then she could possibly use her skills as vb scripts in excel.

> I have some good Java books, but I'm worried that Java is too hard to be a
> first language.  Other thoughts were maybe Python, but I have no experience
> in Python so I wouldn't be able to help, and I don't know what experience
> it offers.  I know lots of plugins and scripts for other programs are
> written in it, but don't know how standalone it is for her to learn.

> Also thought about processing, so maybe she could do Arduino work.  She
> has no interest in hardware so there is no reason for her to learn that
> then.

> Any other suggestions?

> Also anyone know any good free courses online for one of these?  I found
> some python ones, but not a C# or VB one.

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