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Is there any GOOD straight forward tutorial sites?

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Mike6789

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Its been very annoying for me to try and learn programming on my own.

First of all, I work best when I am taught by another person, and in person. I will surely be taking programming classes in college next year, but for the time being I want to learn any language. I've tried C++ and C# along with Java. But I never can get anything thats going on.

And one of the main reasons, that I've found, is that every time I read a book or an online tutorial, it is full of crappy humor and 'factoids' that I dont really care to hear about. I end up giving up because there is so much broth and so little meat in the tutorial that I dont want to spend the time reading it!

I dont care to hear about how the language was spawned! I dont want to know about it I want to learn about it! And I dont want to hear any bland joke about C#!

So I'm wondering if anyone out there has any basic tutorial websites where they get you from point A to B to C without any fluff in between?

Thanks.
 
Start with learning perl (llama book), when you get that figured out, move on up to the Perl Programming (Camel Book). Yes there are elements of humor in both and a bit of a history lesson but they help provide context as to why a computer/language does it one way when in your head it would be simpler to do it another.

You say you're taking programming classes next year, what language(s)? That may help some people who use other languages pipe up about what they used to learn.
 
Mike6789 said:
I dont care to hear about how the language was spawned! I dont want to know about it I want to learn about it! And I dont want to hear any bland joke about C#!
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Sounds like you want a reference manual instead of a tutorial.
 
second the reference manual.

you can always a book like "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Soustrap, the man behind C++.

good book, really...


...but if you don't know how to program at all, you going to wish you had read all the books with the fluff, because un-fluffy books assume you know how to program already.
 
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