Catonic wrote:

Decius wrote:

Catonic wrote:
I have decided to buy some books on Java, Ruby, and Python. Any recommendations for the above?

What programming languages do you already know and how well do you know them?

C and not very. I have a cursory understanding of Perl.

My recommendation is that you pick ONE language and learn it REALLY well instead of trying to learn 5. Once you've really got one, the others are easy to learn because you'll already understand how things are supposed to work.

C is absolutely best because it is the lowest level language and so you learn the most about how the machine works from learning it.

As for the three you list here, the object oriented techniques involved with those languages are something that you may need to do some reading to get, but the languages themselves will come extremely easily once you have C.

Start writing small C programs that teach you fundamentals. Actually write them and get them running. Reading and "getting it" are not the same.

Get this book.

RE: Looking for book recommendations