Programming?
April 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Hello All. I need your guidance to tell me which book to start with for programming. I have absolutely no background about programming and would like very much to know how to do it. I’m using the linux, is there any special program or book should I read/ use? I searched on the internet but each book i download requires a background in C++…
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You may check free programming ebooks website like http://myitcareer.org/ .
My suggestion is if you are working and want to learn programming, find a college/university that runs an evening undergraduate course in IT/Programming. If you don’t want to go that route and prefer self-learning, once you have decided on type of programming you want to learn, just google it. Have a look at Borland and/or Deitel & Deitel
You might want to read this:
http://www.coronadoenterprises.com/coronado/lang.html
Wirth’s "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" is the first book I always used in teaching programming – it teaches the concepts – in English. (Learning a computer language is NOT learning programming.)
Once you understand the basics, learning a simple language will be easy. Then you can move on to more complex languages. (C is not a simple language to grasp, but Wirth teaches enough that handling strings as pointers to character arrays won’t be a daunting task, it’ll just make you wonder why.)
BTW, Amazon usually has used copies for under $5, but don’t let the price fool you – the book is a valuable resource.
according to me programming is nothing but thinking in correct way. i would suggest that one should start programming with C Language. this is procedural language ,means step by step execution of written command on compiler ,your thinking will grow gradually there is not too much functions to remember .
as you will make some programs you will try to find there should something better .And further you will find how easy other languages are.
what ever you will learn here in c. you will find almost same thing in other languages. according to me it should not take more then 4 months to learn c.
when ever you will define a function in any language you have to go through in procedure.
borland c++ 3.0 compiler will be ok.
and book wrtter Ebalaguruswami book name : ANSI C
or older edition of book LET US C by Yashwant kanitkar.
or what ever you feel easy to understand.