Post by earlofqb on Aug 20, 2006 23:29:15 GMT
So often have we, as members of the QBasic Message Board, asked about some good places to go to or books to read in order to gain programming knowledge.
I feel the time has come to place all that knowledge in one, sticky (so you see it every time you open this board) thread (or even a separate sub-board if you wanted to). This is the beginning of that.
Books:
"The Art of Programming" by Donald Knuth - practically the programmer's Bible, it's considered that important to the ideas behind modern programming.
Any Microsoft.NET book (by Microsoft Press) - because .NET is becomming so popular, it's necessary to know at least something about it (certainly for me, who's already learning the hard way that companies want you to know a .NET language (Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic, & Visual J#) in order to work for them).
The "Programming For Dummies" series by Wiley (I think it's Jan and Jim?) - Separate books on introducing you to a programming language. Doesn't teach you how to actually program, but how to solve a problem using a language. Should be sufficient to test if you're interested in the language.
That's all I can think of for now. You can buy these practically wherever you can find them
Websites:
These are many in number, so the quickest thing I could tell you is to do a Google search on either "computer programming" or for a specific language. I'll list some of my favourite ones:
www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm - List of the "Hello World" program in practically every programming language imaginable.
www.htdp.org/ - How to Design Programs page, lists basics of software engineering.
www.scriptol.org/history.php - History of computer programming languages.
gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Programming_Wiki - Game Programming Wiki
There's more, but that's all I could find in my bookmarks right now.
Feel free to post your own information, after all, this is a collaberative effort!
I feel the time has come to place all that knowledge in one, sticky (so you see it every time you open this board) thread (or even a separate sub-board if you wanted to). This is the beginning of that.
Books:
"The Art of Programming" by Donald Knuth - practically the programmer's Bible, it's considered that important to the ideas behind modern programming.
Any Microsoft.NET book (by Microsoft Press) - because .NET is becomming so popular, it's necessary to know at least something about it (certainly for me, who's already learning the hard way that companies want you to know a .NET language (Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic, & Visual J#) in order to work for them).
The "Programming For Dummies" series by Wiley (I think it's Jan and Jim?) - Separate books on introducing you to a programming language. Doesn't teach you how to actually program, but how to solve a problem using a language. Should be sufficient to test if you're interested in the language.
That's all I can think of for now. You can buy these practically wherever you can find them
Websites:
These are many in number, so the quickest thing I could tell you is to do a Google search on either "computer programming" or for a specific language. I'll list some of my favourite ones:
www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm - List of the "Hello World" program in practically every programming language imaginable.
www.htdp.org/ - How to Design Programs page, lists basics of software engineering.
www.scriptol.org/history.php - History of computer programming languages.
gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Programming_Wiki - Game Programming Wiki
There's more, but that's all I could find in my bookmarks right now.
Feel free to post your own information, after all, this is a collaberative effort!
