Is this possible?

You sholud not use "computer programming" and "php" in the same sentence.

Bye Jack

oh. that shows how much I know about it.

As mentioned -- PHP???

I really like the Head First books, as good teach-yourself tutorials. I don't know how one would work if you were starting from the absolute ground up, but it'd be worth a try.

If you mean desktop computer programming, I suggest Java as a first language. It's a good complete language, and it has training wheels on. So you'll be able to do just about anything that you'll ever want a desktop computer to do, and the language will make it difficult for you to do anything really horrendous.

If you want to program embedded microprocessors then the choices become a bit harder. You may still want to start with Java on the desk top, then move to assembly or C on a micro -- learning Java will get you up and going, so that when you transition to microprocessors you'll only have to learn the funny fiddly bits having to do with programming inside of a shoebox.

Having clicked on the link and seen that's a relatively expensive "correspondence" course I suggest that you would be better off buying a couple of books and learning that way.

tim

I'd recommend Python -- it's a lot more interactive, but Java isn't bad. PHP seems like a weird choice.

Especially if something like Python which can be downloaded for free.

Then you can try things out as you go.

Make SURE the books you get do NOT rely on SPECIFIC versions of languages/compilers/platforms BEFORE pruchasing them.

good info. thx. I've also tried to learn from some delphi turbo videos on youtube but gave it up after a couple days

We're doing our best to help newbies to get a start developing embedded software without having to use C or assembler. The Oberon-07 compiler used in our Astrobe system generates native code which is comparable to C in performance and has both high-level and low-level language features (direct register access, interrupt procedures, leaf procedures etc. etc.):

Regards, Chris Burrows

CFB Software

There are several Forth systems available, both open source and proprietary. The commercial ones generate optimised native code. The one we supply has support for all the usual stuff such as SD cards, FAT file systems, USB and TCP/IP.

There are several Forth tutorials available. See:

Stephen