[How To Go About Programming]

Thank you all for the information. I am going to try to start with Python. Hopefully I dont get utterly lost. Take care and keep on thinking.

As I have been reading into this subject I have seen the mention of 'power'. I dont understand what criterion is used to judge how powerful a certain piece of prgramming is. Can anyone give me the rundown?

[How To Go About Programming]

Well, thank you all for the vast amount of information you provided. However I do not have ANY reference to judge the validity of the statements. So I decided I am going to start with Python. Ill stop back in with updates as to how I am progressing. I would still appreciate any input from you all. Take care, and thanks again.

[How To Go About Programming]

A few questions:

1. Do you have any understanding of programming? From your post, I assume the answer is "no", but I thought I'd double-check.
   
   
2. What does "programming" mean to you, at your current state of knowledge?
   
   
3. Why do you want to learn programming? Is it so that you can program something? Or, is it more in the nature of doing simple programming so that you can better appreciate what programming is all about?
   

And, all hail to thee too!

1. Nothing I can do anything with.

2.Its stringing together various commands.

3. So I can get a better understanding of what is going on when I use a program. I feel dangerously ignorant about something that is becoming an all pervasive part of our lives.

[How To Go About Programming]

First of all I would like to welcome and hail the programmers reading this. I have an enormous amount of respect for you and consider you the new architects of a wondrous and powerful new chapter in our history. The things you create are the foundation for the new frontier of a computerized world. That being said I have an interest in learning how to program and was wondering if anyone could point me in a direction to pursue.