A beginners Section

Chris F

Hi Folks , I love this site and love getting e-mail from this site with new stuff happening . I am a total newbie at programing but I have been in System Administration for a while . I would love to see a Section dedicated to total newbies that off projects and information for the beginner ... Not that anything should be in stone cause its hard to keep peoples intrests but I think I have a passion for programming even though I'm a total newbie at it .. It would be nice to see a section for newbies :) ... Or maybe there is and I haven't seen it ... Sorry for such a long e-mial ... Great Site !! Thanks Chris

J Dunlap

People have talked about this before, and agreed that it's a good idea. There's a beginners section for C++, one for C#, etc, but as you said, there aren't really very many articles for the total beginner. I just might write some myself - if time permits.

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Roger Wright

It's been suggested before, and remains a good idea. I'm an old fart, used to programming procedural style, but I'm a total newbie in this goofy, confusing Windows event-driven paradigm. I search for beginner articles regularly, and there are a lot of them if you look for them. Every article is rated by level, but it can be difficult to find the beginner level ones easily. A separate section for us would be nice. So long as we can stay away from utterly useless garbage like 'Hello World' and 'Scribble' apps, anything tutorial on a beginner level would be welcome. If you're really new to programming, I'd recommend that you check out some of the scripting articles realted to ASP and ADO. Scripting is looked down upon by a lot of the locals, but it's every bit as valid as a programming model as C++ - it just takes advantage of higher levels of abstraction so as to save you the worry over the low-level details of your code. C# looks to be the new darling in Microsoft's nest, and there are a lot of good articles of a tutorial nature there. That's a good step up after dabbling with scripts, and the nomenclature and syntax are a good intro to what you'll need to move on into the high-octane languages. One thing you might consider is, though there is no beginner area here, the possibility of adding your discoveries as you learn in the form of basic tutorials. That would grow the stock of beginner articles here, perhaps resulting in a need to create the very thing you seek. You would be doing yourself, and others, a service by making this happen. Keep in mind that, even if all you know how to do is loop on a serial port waiting for something to happen, there are likely to be many of our nearly 700,000 members who don't know how to do that. They may be very thankful to you for you showing them how it's done. I have a strong feeling that many good articles may never be published because the authors feel that their contribution isn't good enough for this bunch; don't let that stop you... Welcome to CodeProject, weird world though it may be.:-D "Your village called -
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Member 96

Yup, I agree entirely, I have a friend that want's to learn how to program in .net and there is really nothing on the internet anywhere that will walk a person with nothing more than an internet connection through the process of getting the runtime installed, getting the open source IDE, starting with the basics, i.e. what is an object, what is a program through to writing the classic hello world app and on from there. Ideally it would be nice if a beginner section stated up front that all you need is an internet connection, a windows pc and a willingness to learn and the rest is linked to, taught from the beginners section. Step by step to bring a person up to where they can then benefit from / use the beginner level articles already on C.P.

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