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Originally Posted by AtomicStryker *spontaneously bursts into flames*

*rushes over with a fire extinguisher*

[thetwistedpanda]

Tanish, I personally love AutoIt and it certainly isn't a bad language to invest some time into learning it. It has a lot of power as far as Windows OS automation goes, which can save you a lot of time if you know you're doing.

[Seta00]

Originally Posted by tanishwallen I would like to learn a scripting language that I could start doing cool things with in a few hours. But I do not want to learn Python yet. I have heard that AutoItV3 is a good scripting language to make bots and such. So any suggestions and good places to start learning one of these languages?

Python is one of the fastest languages to learn and to do stuff, you should really take a look if you want productivity.

Originally Posted by Lord Canistra I could say it's quite the contrary. Starting from easily-approached languages will corrupt your mind and make things only worse when you get your hands onto some real languages.

But this guy is correct, you should learn about the internals of languages with low-level stuff before using this kind of languages.

My recommendation is the same for everyone that wants to start programming, learn C/C++: it will help you with almost every other language. The only exceptions so far for me were Haskell and LISP, which use totally different paradigms.

[thacursedpie]

I strongly advice you to start with C/C++ (though they are hard languages). In the end, you understand more .

One of the best guides I've found on C is Beej's guide to C programming. (http://beej.us/guide/bgc/), which is awesome because he starts at the real basics. He doesn't asume ANY prior programming knowledge. Plus, it's written in a very funny way

By starting out with C, you'll learn stuff about pointers, memory management, etc, you wouldn't learn if you'd start with python.

[Xsinthis]

I learned on Turing and then Java >.>

[FaTony]

Originally Posted by thacursedpie By starting out with C, you'll learn stuff about pointers, memory management, etc, you wouldn't learn if you'd start with python.

... and then you'll need to forget everything and start over with references and STL in C++, oh boy.

[thacursedpie]

Originally Posted by FaTony ... and then you'll need to forget everything and start over with references and STL in C++, oh boy.

Then dont learn C++ ;). Nah, good point. I still havent gotten around to learning C++ properly. But my c knowledge comes in handy when I need to do some kind of reversing.