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I want to learn java script. how can i learn it

If you have your heart set on learning javascript, you should read this online O'reilly book (JavaScript: The Definitive Guide) for learning javascript. Are you sure you don't want to learn something else like java? Java is a more multipurpose langugage that can be used to make more programs. I reccomend that you choose java instead. If you want to learn java (i reccomend that you do), see this online o'reilly book (Exploring Java). I hope this fits your needs! Happy programming!

--Alex

I know VisualBasic and use it, but it is not my language of choice.

REALbasic is much more powerful and easier, and has almost the exact same syntax. http://www.realbasic.com

I'm moving on, now, though, to programming in Objective-C.

I've tried C++, but am not very good with it. I have also done a little bit in Java and JavaScript. I don't think anyone in my family has ever been especially proficient with programming, even though my dad is an electrical engineer and sister is studying electrical engineering in college. When I start at Georgia Tech this fall, I will take a course called computing for engineers, where you learn how to program in Matlab and Java. This is especially useful because Matlab is a very powerful program that has numerous applications in engineering.

I really want to learn about programming. I have a palm programming book but what is stopping me is costs. Since I have no real knowledge of programming I only know that you need a program to program into. I would love to learn programming for the price of a book only at the most. Any suggestions of what I can use that is on my computer already to teach myself programming and what language to start with? I have tried some C with the palm programming book but this is new to me. I am more a hardware type person. My brain sees the electricity flashing through the chips, boards, and batteries from anything electrical and as soon as a toy breaks down or stops working properly I open it up to see how it was put together electriconically. I took electronics waaay back when I was in high school but that was years ago. I am very intrigued by microwaves and radiowaves as these are areas that my father would talk passionately about and I would get lost in the power moving. Anyways I would love something visual as I need to see it work inorder to understand it work.

I started learning python (http://www.python.org) about a year ago. My interest in things goes in cycles, since I generally have a lot of interests competing for my attention at any one time, and I've been dealing with a bad depression for the past year that's killed all my interests at certain points, but I can now whip up basic bouncing ball simulations, broken A* implimentations and so on. I've got a long way to go before I'll be able to do anything really interesting with it, but I'm getting there.

I like programming in Perl.
You can get a free download at: http://www.activestate.com
This is a scripting language like python.
The possibilities are almost endless.
Depending on what goal you have you can find a lot of modules at:
http://www.cpan.org/
Perl looks a lot like C++ but is easier to use, because Perl handles a lot of nasty stuff that C++ doesn´t do for you. Also Perl is very fast.
A very strong feature of Perl is the use of "regular expressions". You can use these to manipulate text-files or html-files or whatever.

I program in C/C++. I am wanting to make my own games y'see. I might learn some Java too, just to make apps for my mobile (Moto V500).

I'm trying to learn Ruby so that I can build sites with the Rails framework. I know enough Python so that I can do some scriping for Zope and Plone.

I use Visual Basic just about every day at work.

Wow, this thread was posted almost a year ago! Matthew, if you are still here, I'll just say no, I don't use Visual Basic, but I want to learn how.

http://www.learnvisualstudio.net The place for you to learn Visual Basic and/or C#

you know whats fun and easy to learn? Haskell. mm love that functional goodness.

I've programmed in many many programming languages.
A quick list would in include C/C++, pascal, C#, Java, Standard ML, prolog (which i hate, but CS made us learn it), ADA, J# (which is basically just a rip off of java and i never liked it), Delphi (which is just a rip off of pascal), and various scripting languages for one thing or another i've long since forgotten.

These days i'm only compitent in C/C++, C# and java.

I find what you're really learning the first time you learn to program in a language is the thinking process of programming. The language doesn't really seem to be as important.
I can usually just start writing a program in a language i don't know if i've got syntax reference and the life available. I think part of that's just me and part of it is because I did part of a really old school sink or swim teaching styled CS course where if you couldn't pick up a new language in a weekend you failed.

~EG (maria)