Learning programming: For absolute noobs

[Toria]

Hi i hope that i posted this thread to correct section.
Please can u give some advices how to start programing and debuging? I never done nothing, i dont even know what are these ';[/} things..as ia said for absolute noobs. I was searching on the internet for very long time and evrything i found under section FOR ABSOLUTE NOOBS or other terms was useless because those people were already explaing programming with expectations that u know some basics, but i dont know NOTHING. So please i will appreciate some really good advice. Sorry for my bad english and thank you ahead for reactions.

[TippeX]

Codeproject.com -> mostly c and some other langs, though c is probably easiest to start with (i advise against learning visual basic) and perhaps try googling?

[Toria]

As i said i was googling very long but i everywhere i was reading or watching videos about programming they always start with some terms and symbols that i realy didnt know about. Thanks for site...

Wooww. That site...im really tail of it. But thank you.

I realy dont know where to start, theres to much info and strange terms already in sections.

[Joe Forster/STA]

(Please, don't open newer and newer posts to add another sentence.)

Pascal is significantly easier to learn than C and e.g. Delphi with its Object Pascal language will also teach you OOP (object-oriented programming) which in the last two decades became the real shit.

Modula-2 and Ada, very similar languages, are even more recommended if you want to learn elegant programming but, beware, they are stricter and have annoying mandatory syntax sugar. Modula-2 has been further developed from Pascal exactly for a learning language and Ada is used for very serious applications... why...? because if you can write a syntactically correct Ada program then it will also be semantically correct. :p But seriously, Ada is used e.g. in the NASA because programs written in it are very reliable.

C is harder to learn, because of its weird, "compact" syntax which is different from writing kind of English sentences like in BASIC, Pascal (and co.), SQL, COBOL etc. But if you learn it, you'll see that it is extremely powerful and efficient. Then you can go on to C++, the OOP variant of C, and/or Java, kind of the next generation of OOP C.

I've been coding a serious application software in Pascal for a decade and a half but, after I've learnt C a few years ago, Pascal seems a child toy compared to it.