RE: Good resource for beginning programmers

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Hi everybody-
I am trying to decide where to start as far as learning programming.
I decided I would focus on 1. PHP, 2. JavaScript, 3. Java, 4. C
I figured these are being used the most in web development and custom
applications. So, where does Python come in?  How would you compare Python
with Java, PHP, and C??
Can anybody give me an example of what cannot be developed in PHP which can
be developed in Python?
Or how about Java vs Python if PHP is to lowly?  I have just heard PHP has
limitations.



H.R. Soltani

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I'm not great with python, but I could help either one or both of you 
out with what I know. I've been working with python and have had the 
help of people who use it for a living to kind of guide me.
On 11/17/2010 9:14 AM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> I'm interested, but I don't have the time to schedule sitting down for
hours at a time. If you'd like to exchange notes here and there and sort of
go through something at the same time, I welcome that. It's good to think
about having a partner to bounce thoughts around with. Maybe we could create
a plan to go through some of the material and sit down for maybe a half hour
a week to encourage one another.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence
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> Hi, folks,
>
> Thought I'd share this.  I don't know how many of you may know this
> but MIT puts a bunch of their courses on a site that they make
> available to everyone called OCW which is short for Open Courseware.
> I've found a nice link in this site to their Introduction to Computer
> Science and Programming course which was taught in fall 2008.  It's a
> whole semester's worth of lectures, assignments, readings and so
> forth.  Most of us probably can't afford to take time off our jobs and
> attend MIT but, we can still get the benefit of some of their excelent
> curriculum this way.  I think it beats just reading a book and
> learning that way.  Posting the link below.  The language they use for
> this course is Python.  I'm actually planning to put c++ on pause for
> a while while I take this course as time allows since Python appears
> to be a much quicker way to learn programming.  If anyone wants to
> join me for the occasional study session, e-mail me privately and we
> can help each other out from time to time.  Probably watch two hours
> worth of lectures on a weekend night or something like that.  And yes,
> if anyone's curious, they do have a c++ introductory course there but
> it's all lecture notes and pdf's.  The lecture notes look like they
> don't do squat for you if you didn't attend class as really good
> lecture notes written by any self-respecting instructor should in
> order to motivate you to show up for class.  The cs course with Python
> has all the bells and whistles short of truly being able to enroll and
> have the instructor available.
>
> Here is the link:
>
>
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-
introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/
>
> Regards,
> Alex M
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