<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> So when I started that Dip last year I got
into programming for the first time. I have access to all the VTC tutorials as
part of the Dip. Thus I looked at them. There was Perl, Java, C, computer
forensics…</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Then I got some compilers and started to enjoy
ruby and python. I am 33. I wish that I got into programming when I was 12 or
20. But it just never happened.</span></font><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div>We can all think of things to wish away. I don't see you starting programming at 33 to be a problem. <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> <br>
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> So where I stand now is that I would like to
program for 2 reasons [1] I like it and [2] I want to complement and extend my
design Dip. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Sounds like you've caught the programming bug :) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">At one pt I thought that Java might do this by being a language
that does 3D graphics programming. Then I thought of Perl or PHP as web programming
things. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>It sucks when people pigeon hole things before they get the full picture. Maybe you should check out the following:<br><br> <a href="http://sdl.perl.org/">http://sdl.perl.org/</a><br>
<a href="http://pygame.org/wiki/about">http://pygame.org/wiki/about</a><br><br>Java can also do 3D graphics, but I also think it's not a great introduction to programming.<br><br>Alfie<br></div></div><br>