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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2267411" data-attributes="member: 1874">You can download and install Python here, if you want to try Python: <a href="http://python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/python-2.4.1.msi" target="_blank">http://python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/python-2.4.1.msi</a> (10 mb or so). Then you can fire up the program called "Idle" and code away, kinda like you type mathematical expression on a calculator. Screenshot: <a href="http://psionicist.online.fr/idlep.gif" target="_blank">http://psionicist.online.fr/idlep.gif</a> If you think this is fun you can check out a few tutorials: <a href="http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html</a>In short:PHP, ASP etc are languages used to create more advanced webpage apps such as message boards, guestbooks. You can't use these languages to create programs (or well you can actually, but I dont know anyone who do that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)SQL is a language to manage contents in a database. Check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">www.amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">www.wikipedia.org</a>. When you search for something, its SQL that retrieves the data you want.C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Python etc are regular programming languages you can use to create, say, programs or games. Without going into too much technical details you can divide these into two categories, both equally good:languages good for "drawing". these languages are often hard to use and it takes a while to get a result, but the resulting program is _fast_. These languages are pretty unfriendly and its easy to "shoot yourself in the foot", its up to you to make everything work. These languages are often used for 3D-games where you really need speed and operating systems where you need reliability. They are also popular languages for those who wish to really understand whats going on when a program runs, because of their "low level". C and C++ are good languages for this.languages good for "sketching". these languages makes it easy to create programs fast, but the actual program is usually slower than if coded in a "drawing"-language. These languages usually helps the programmer with (or hides) unfriendly elements from "lower-level" languages which is both good and bad. Good: Code written in these languages are usually easier to read (and write of course). Bad: the language wont teach/tell you whats really going on. You dont have the same control and sheer power in these languages. Python, C#, Java are good languages for this.People have argued for decades what category is best to learn first, I think it depends on the person. A good analogy is photography: you can either learn it by getting an old, analog camera with lots of settings and take pictures the old-school way. Or you can get a cool digital point-and-shoot camera that sets the aparture and whatever it's called for you. In the end, its not the camera that makes the photographer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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