No matter what field they’re in, newcomers to a particular career path face an uphill battle of learning the ropes of the industry. This is especially true for programmers, who may possess impressive ...

When the free Express editions of Visual Studio were first announced, the Microsoft .NET Development Series got quite a few proposals for books aimed at amateur and novice programmers. As Series ...

I started doing web developing a few years back at the very beginning. I know HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS, and did a very small amount of Java before.<BR>Now I am playing with Visual Basic and ...

There was a time when you could type those words into any home computer and get it to say "Hello World," because virtually all of them came with BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...

Earlier this month, ITworld blogger Matthew Mombrea wrote an interesting post about which programming language is the best one to learn first (his choice: Java or C#). Not surprisingly, it generated ...