Started with Perl, then VB, Java, then VbScript + Classic ASP, C#.
Of course there's the usual HTML, CSS, XML, SQL etc.

I bought my first computer and basically kept phucking it up big time (deleting system file style), cos I didn't have any clue about how to operate the damn thing (self taught). Those were hairy times!

Is HTML/CSS classified as a programming language? did a web dev class and my class web project was chosen as the best design.. my prof suggested i further develop the site so i got some team members and we been coding and sharing ideas.Will definitely reveal it here when its finally completed.

i remember back in the days in naija after high school, i went to NIIT Festac and paid 100k to learn Oracle 10G with no basic knowledge in programming, i had a slight migrane after my first day in class. I tried to cope but eventually dropped out, i nvr went back to NIIT again and i forfeited the cash. When i look back i laugh- long time coming!

eazyd: Is HTML/CSS classified as a programming language? did a web dev class and my class web project was chosen as the best design.. my prof suggested i further develop the site so i got some team members and we been coding and sharing ideas.Will definitely reveal it here when its finally completed.

Not really. HTML is a language for describing the structure of text. CSS is a language for describing how it should be displayed.

Neither are programming languages. No variables, no for loops, no if statements etc.

Javascript is a programming language, though.

ekt_bear:

Not really. HTML is a language for describing the structure of text. CSS is a language for describing how it should be displayed.

Neither are programming languages. No variables, no for loops, no if statements etc.

Javascript is a programming language, though.

HTML- Hyper text markup language

Indeed. A language for structuring text. But not a programming language.

Started with php, switched to ColdFusion (i love it !) and thinking of playing with java anytime soon.

C++ now and for a very long time...

ekt_bear: Not really. HTML is a language for describing the structure of text. CSS is a language for describing how it should be displayed.

Neither are programming languages. No variables, no for loops, no if statements etc.

html/css has variables, the only thing that don't make them programming langs is that they don't have sequential tasks(ie: functions, if statements, loops, etc)

How does one set and use variables in html and css? I honestly don't know how off the top of my head..

ekt_bear: How does one set and use variables in html and css? I honestly don't know how off the top of my head..

a variable is simply an entity whose value can be assigned/changed within a valid range. people think html/css don't have variable b'cos they assume the variables to be the same as in c++/java/php/etc. few examples of html variable include character( eg: asci, unicode, iso-8859-1, etc), name(range includes:A-Z, a-z, hyphen(-), periods(.), underscore(_), colons(), number(positive integer, zero).

give a concrete example

set a variable, then use it to do something

ekt_bear: give a concrete example
set a variable, then use it to do something

<p id="okeyxyz" style="color:#FF0000;">this is a paragraph</p>

variable name =okeyxyz,
type =color,
value =#FF0000

hmm...not really sold on that example.

You are setting attributes for the tag p.

I suppose this is technically a variable you are setting. But eh...I dunno. Not convinced.

In any case, html is not a programming language.

ekt_bear:
You are setting attributes for the tag p.

a html tag is likened to a data-structure, which can reference different variables(attributes/data-types) by the same name(id).

but we agree html/css is not a programming language

Right. But data alone doesn't make a programming language.

You need to be able to manipulate the data

Anyway, yeah.

The argument about HTML being a programming language is an old one. Can you create computer instructions with it? Yes, you can.
The big question is if the computer instructions you can create with HTML are of a complex enough nature to tickle the fancy of the IT World.

Its all in the tiny details of what constitutes the base definitions of programming and of course, the usual "religious" positions of IT folk.

@okeyxyz the explanation you gave on Variables is kind of confusing.
According to what I read and am trying to understand, Variables are containers for storing informations. And it went further to say that, the location of the variable is unimportant.
But, somehow, this explanation is still not clear.
Could you please explain to me what a variable is, and how to use them (please try explaining using understandable words, cause I only just started JavaScript).

abubaka101: @okeyxyz the explanation you gave on Variables is kind of confusing.
According to what I read and am trying to understand, Variables are containers for storing informations. And it went further to say that, the location of the variable is unimportant.
But, somehow, this explanation is still not clear.
Could you please explain to me what a variable is, and how to use them (please try explaining using understandable words, cause I only just started JavaScript).

your explanations above are correct, so i'm not sure what you don't understand. but to quickly run through it again: the most prominent attributes of a variable:

it has a name (to uniquely identify it, so that you can recall\reference it at anytime\any place)
a type (this defines the range of values that can be assigned\stored)
a value (the choice(s) from this range. essentially, when you assign a value, then you have executed the variable)

maybe it's the location part that's confusing you(since you r new). don't worry about it, a variable is a variable no matter where it is defined. in programming, the word for location is scope & there r different types of scope\location(eg: local, global, namespace, private, protected, public, structures, etc). like i said, don't worry about it, you'll understand when the time comes. you grow in knowledge.

okeyxyz:

your explanations above are correct, so i'm not sure what you don't understand. but to quickly run through it again: the most prominent attributes of a variable:

it has a name (to uniquely identify it, so that you can recall\reference it at anytime\any place)
a type (this defines the range of values that can be assigned\stored)
a value (the choice(s) from this range. essentially, when you assign a value, then you have executed the variable)

maybe it's the location part that's confusing you(since you r new). don't worry about it, a variable is a variable no matter where it is defined. in programming, the word for location is scope & there r different types of scope\location(eg: local, global, namespace, private, protected, public, structures, etc). like i said, don't worry about it, you'll understand when the time comes. you grow in knowledge.

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I don't know anything about programming and i seriously want to learn. Please can you suggest a language I can start from?

I don't know a thing about programming and i seriously want to learn, please can you suggest any language that i can start from

Kenooff: I don't know a thing about programming and i seriously want to learn, please can you suggest any language that i can start from

start out with HTML/CSS

av been coding in c++ for 3 years now . am gud at it

Kenooff: I don't know a thing about programming and i seriously want to learn, please can you suggest any language that i can start from

This might be a good place to start:

http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/

More resources here:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

Started with vb6 in 2007 but ditched it after about 4 months for vb.net. Got really good with vb.net but became frustrated when I changed over to Ubuntu and couldn't port my vb stuff (even with mono and monodevelop IDE!), then I seriously started looking for a more cross-platform language, thought of Java but was already hooked on curly-braces-less and no-line-delimiter programming so I found Python (late 2009) and became inseparably attached to it (Django, PySide/PyQt, etc, etc). Am currently learning C++ just as a secondary language though. Javascript/HTML/CSS come with the web dev terrain hence I know a modest amount of each but I strictly consider myself a backends person (web apps, desktop apps and APIs).

@op,
C++, html, css, javascript for 'bout 4 months now. I really luv c++. About to learn the 'almighty' java.

Kenooff: I don't know anything about programming and i seriously want to learn. Please can you suggest a language I can start from?

I'll suggest c++, it's fun!

3years xperience vb.net vb6 mysql php asp.net css html and a little bit of java. Programming has been d best thing that has ever happened to me, before I started I was a nobody, bt nw although I am still in school, everybody wants to work with me, I don't look for money or people it all just comes, even my girlfriend who is one of d prettiest girls in school came to me through programming. So its my life

I just taught I should check back at this page to see any new updates.
Then I discovered that my post on this page dates back to May!
And when I last posted, I had just seen JavaScript for the first time.
But glory be to God, it's November now, and am proud to say that since my last post here, I've learnt the following: JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML DOM, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET (Web Pages Model) and XML. Like Okeyxyz said, "you grow in learning".
Now I've learnt them, it's now time for me to develop something worth the knowledge.
That's my testimony!

seems i'm alone using FASM.

Doing database programming..vb to be precise...programming since 2yrs, bur unserious