Question:
someone who knows nothing about programming, what is the best (and
simplest way ) to learn the basics of programming. Is there a book that may
be helpful? What is the simplest (very simple please) programming language
that is a good starting point into the world of programming.
Answer:
The simplest *true* programming language IMO is Pascal. It is elegant and
when you put everything together you don't have a bunch of leftover parts or
things reminiscent of shanties or fixes or patches. BASIC was an easy
language to learn but it is pretty much unavailable now. It has been
superceded by a thing called Visual BASIC from Microsoft which has little
resemblance to BASIC. Visual BASIC is almost certainly the most common low
effort way to get into programming, especially as a self teaching approach.
But the most common computer is Windows on an 8086 chip. So popular is not
alwasy a good metric.
Both BASIC and Pascal were designed expressly for *teaching* a programming
language.
I don't know if Pascal is too available either. Borland has a thing called
Delphi which has been called Object Pascal but I have no personal knowledge
(but several books to look at some day) of it.
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