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Posted by najohns on 2000-11-10

I have little to no experience with coding, the most I've done was attempted 
to write programs on my graphing calculator.  And all I managed to do was set 
up questions and varying displays based on the answer, I think I also set up a 
heads or tails thing, and a "hit counter" just for the heck of it.  I have had 
an interest in programming since I first made something appear on the 
calculator screen, I became quite proud of that little code I spent all so 
many classes writing.  Other than this I messed with triggers in the campain 
editor to Starcraft.  So, is it normal for me to look at code and have little 
to no idea what it means?  Should I treat it like a foreign language and just 
jump in head first and see what can learn.  It would probably help if I could 
get a computer in my room because I can't really do much in this lab.  Also, 
which language would be best to learn on, when I do manage to get a computer.

Nathaniel Johnson, UofA