[Hb_Kai]

I'm always seeing posts on forums (not usually this one but others a lot more) and am always being asked by friends if I know of good websites/ebooks to help learning a programming language and I thought I would share this - I know this isn't exactly a tutorial and it's an easy task to Google this but it may be a useful thing so it can be later referred to when questioned (?).

Not all languages are covered in this - only ones I've used/searched for.

So I'll start with the Windows-based ones and then move on to the cross-platform languages.

The online tutorials at www.homeandlearn.co.uk, I would always recommend because the dude who wrote them explains this in such an easily understandable way, gives you, at the end of the modules, tasks which you can do to practice what you have learnt and this guy's tutorials are the best I've come across on the Internet.

Batch/MS-DOS; (Windows only):
Batch Tutorial

Visual Basic .NET:
Home & Learn - VB .NET

Visual C# .NET; ( pronounced as C sharp by the way):
Home & Learn - Visual C# .NET

ASP .NET:
ASP.NET-tutorials.com

Python:
Beginner's Guide - wiki
ActivePython | Python 2.5 | with exercises
ActivePython | Python 2.6 | with exercises
ActivePython | Python 3.1 | with exercises

Java:
Sun Microsystem's tutorial

C++:
C++ online

Pascal:
Entire Pascal Language tutorial

Bash; (Linux only):
Basch Scripting Tutorial

Web Design:
Home & Learn - Web Design

PHP:
Home & Learn - PHP

For Linux users who are wanting to download a tutorial...
Use the wget command from the terminal to download a tutorial with the following syntax.

wget -r http://www.example.com/

This will save the URL in a folder on your desktop named as the website. (e.g, docs.activestate.com)

This post has been edited by ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb: 28 November 2009 - 01:28
Reason for edit: added info by request.

[Inferno]

Not to resurrect an old post - but this should be pinned both here and in the Programming section.

Awesome work! Helped me out a lot.

[-pops-]

Pinned!

[Hb_Kai]

[Hb_Kai]

I forgot to add this until now when I just found the application again.

For those of you Windows programmers using the Visual Studio suite for your .NET languages, there is also a Linux alternative called MonoDevelop.

To get this, you can download it from the subversion repository, providing you have the Subversion package by typing

Quote

svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/monodevelop

or apt-get install monodevelop from the terminal or you can download it from the MonoDevelop Download page.

[Hb_Kai]

Could a mod or someone kindly spend a minute or so of their time to edit the original post of this thread for me please?

Just wanted to add the following

Add to the Python lines:
ActivePython | Python 2.5 | with exercises
ActivePython | Python 2.6 | with exercises
ActivePython | Python 3.1 | with exercises


...and also added to the bottom of the post:

For Linux users who are wanting to download a tutorial... [/b]

Use the wget command from the terminal to download a tutorial with the following syntax.

wget -r http://www.example.com

This will save the URL in a folder on your desktop named as the website. (e.g, docs.activestate.com)


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The Python tutorials are probably better than the Python official documentation and the Linux terminal command is a lot more handy for the people who are wanting to quickly download the tutorial so they don't have to learn the programming language whilst on the Internet and do it in their spare time or when they are away or something.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb: 28 November 2009 - 01:30
Reason for edit: done :)