first programming language

[Oneslowz28]

Yea thats me. Its actually a full water cooling information center. It will read the RPM of 2 fans, 2 pumps, display temperature from 4 locations, display liquid flow rate in lph, and sound an alarm if the flow stops.

Arduino is a fun way to learn c++ well a derivative of it anyway. But I have a AVR devboard that just uses c++ and AVRdude to compile and upload. Of course this is all for physical computing and I know nothing about building software apps or things like that.

[blaze15301]

wow im amazed i want to do that. but on a side note would you be willing to make and sell one of those when you perfect it. if so how much

[Oneslowz28]

Yes I am planning on doing that and the price is TBD but should be not much over cost of materials.

[dr.walrus]

hello again every one.

i am looking for a programming language that is good to learn first. and some pointers. i have done hello world in c++ and C#. so if you would like to suggest something please do.

I would ask you simply this: what do you want to do with your programming? Because if you have a particular theme or project in mind, picking a particular language and specialising in it would make sense.

Some projects require scripting only, and therefore OOP isn't necessary. For example, if you want a list of items inserted into a database, your program would read in pseudocode:

-open file
-read first line
-insert into database
-read second line
-insert into database
-close file

That action could be done without an object oriented language and you could streamline your learning a lot.

If you don't know what you're going to do with your programming knowledge, I would go for Java.

[blaze15301]

ok well let me know and i will be sure to buy one.

[x88x]

ok well let me know and i will be sure to buy one.

wah?

[blaze15301]

lol i just pmed you about the fittings thanks for reminding me. and he is going to be selling his water/fan controller thing hes working on.

[x88x]

Hahaha, oh, that. The post inbetween threw me off.