The purpose of this article is to provide, I hope, the greatest possible clarity for those new to programming entirely.
This article will address the usual questions that beginners arise, and will help you specifically choose the programming language with which to start.
What is "knowledge program"?
In programming, one comes across very different opinions regarding the term "programming skills". A person who has just finished an online course on programming and made "small programs" for a week she knows schedule?
And if asked a task she can not do with the same programming language, she knows still teach?
From there come many critics about books that speak to learn programming "in two weeks".
In fact, there are no objective answers to this question. There will always be someone who knows more,and someone who knows less than you. The first will say that you are a "noob" the second that you are a "pro".
Programming is a field that takes years and years to be well controlled. And again, if we stop, again the yarn is easily lost since new specificities are added to the programming language in question.
Far from me the idea to depress you, learning to program is an excellent choice but not perhaps represents exactly what you thought at first.
Again, learn to program is not (just) learn the syntax of a language and the various keywords, but knowing how to create a given application which is the goal in a respectable time.
Program is solving a problem.
You can actually imagine a programming language like a real spoken language. Learn basic verbs and how to build a sentence is a very good start but it is not enough to speak directly with a native speaker of the language.
To do so, we must also speak. Talking again and again to acquire good habits and speak as clearly and easily as possible.
Some languages spoken are also more difficult to learn than others, just as some programming languages are more difficult to learn than others.
What are the qualities required to be a programmer
I am absolutely against those who believe that we must have a diploma or a gift to schedule.
If we told you that you will not be a programmer for one of these reasons, or if you think yourself, change your mindset immediately.
And even if the criteria or qualities are indeed required to know how to program, they learn and forge.
Some qualities that help a lot in the field of programming:
Be passionate (e)
It is even a test that helps in all areas of life, if you are passionate (s) something, you will have the strength to learn to ignore the difficulties and succeed in going up at the end. In programming, you must especially love learning, solve problems and not give up.
Do not abandon
Very concretely, I will detail the last sentence of the previous paragraph.
Solving problems means that you will probably be one day in front of your screen, blocked (e) does not know how to organize your program or write a given function.
Learning means that you will often learn new things to achieve a particular task.
For lack of time, motivation or complexity of the problem, we give up easily. While the solution is often closer than we think. Small note for those who easily say they are zero: this is not true. And there is probably someone more "no" than you, who still managed. Trust yourself, drop your apologies and go for it! If you have access to this article, you also have access to all the online resources on programming.
You are stuck? you are lost ? Congratulations and welcome to the world of programmers, you are not zero, but quite normal.
Pause your program and go in search of information on the Internet. Learn new technologies, new methods of implementation, and continue. Be flexible in your learning.
In this connection, you do not need a degree to begin programming. Wait to have a degree or be admitted to a particular school is time wasted. Time waiting that you could use to learn programming as an autodidact. You have no money? There are tons of free information on the Internet.
Some people are really strong programming (I am not one), yet they started with nothing.
Conversely, we sometimes think that a particular task requires years of work, while a very simple solution already exists. Do not reinvent the wheel if it's not necessary.
Practise
This is advice I often give. And this because I started programming by reading books at FNAC in my spare time. I noted on my phone syntax, keywords, and how to install the various compilers / development environments.
Then I stopped there. I had read hundreds and hundreds of pages, I was "ready" to write hundreds of lines of programs ... and when I got home, I had forgotten, I have not even installed anything it and I ended up playing Far Cry.
So I recommend you to practice directly in the company of the book you are reading. The diploma does not certify your programming quality, but your practice and your experience certifies.
Reading books is not enough, we must especially read the code. Reading other people's code around the same subject that interests us, we discover other ways to program. Sometimes we discover more effective ways to direct or more.
Open Source or not?
Here we enter a big debate. The purpose of the article is to let you choice. The Open Source community is vast and often favored when program aims to contribute to improving the world all together. We are also more in the spirit "hacker ethics".
Open Source projects that you will find a lot of github.com allow you to reuse for other projects to improve people or you rely on it for your own projects. Not only you do not reinvent the wheel, but the more youimprove. You also have the opportunity to practice and communicate with people who already know the area you want to learn.
In the other direction, program "closed" software (whose code is not unlike a distributed open source program) allows to attribute the creation of the program and often to make profit.
In the following article, I will show you several completely different programming languages. So you can understand which one best fits your need. To continue the analogy with language, it is as if you were immersed in England and another in Japan to find out what language you like the most, if you hesitate between.
What is the best language to start?
I already addressed this issue in an article and will therefore be faster here.
You want to learn a foreign language by which you want to start?
This is exactly the same.
Following this question you should say that it depends on what you can (or want) to learning a language.
This is exactly the same.
Why learn English and not German?
English is the official language? German is too complicated? You count finally from Spain and therefore speak Spanish?
Start by your goal. Why do you want to learn to program? What would you do in the end?
The answers to these questions will help you to choose the programming language in which you need to start.
We will now see several popular programming languages and what we can do with this will give you a better idea how to direct you. In particular where several languages can be used for your purpose.
I'll give you some links for how to get started with the language in question. But I could not of course be complete by language tutorials. By cons, you can specify the language myself comment that caught your attention in the light of your goal, and according to my skills, I could maybe make a more detailed article on the programming language in question.
Remember that know how to program also means knowing the algorithms, namely commenting / indenting its code, master the programming paradigms for writing fluid and operational code ... etc.
I will review the 5 most popular programming languages according open-source-guide.com:
source: http://www.open-source-guide.com/Actualites/Les-langages-de-programmation-les-plus-populaires
Programming in Java:
Java is a popular programming language. It is even more popular from the previous statistics.
Java is the officially supported language for writing Android applications.
Here is an example of Java code:
The code above is from an Android application to make network monitoring:
https://github.com/caarmen/network-monitor
Of course, Java is not only reserved for the Android applications, it also allows to create programs forWindows, Mac and Linux. They say it is "portable".
Start with Java:
You can start using the "official" site http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/newtojava/overview/index.html
Note: Many tutorials are in English. I did not state the qualifications but understand English is a plus for understanding some tutorials (and even some codes).
Another great resource to start is LearnJavaOnline: http://www.learnjavaonline.org/
LearnJavaOnline allows writing Java code directly online and get the execution result.
Java is an object oriented programming language, so it is highly recommended to learn the concepts of object-oriented programming:
https://openclassrooms.com/courses/apprenez-a-programmer-en-vb-net/les-concepts-de-la-poo
Programming in C:
Here is a sample C code:
The previous code is taken from ProcessHacker program available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/processhacker/
Here the program interface in question:
The C language is very popular and very often put forward when seeking to develop powerful software. It is also perfectly portable is often the basis for operating systems. It is a low-level programming language and imperative (unlike Java and other). Concretely, this means that C blames the machine language (binary).
C however is a difficult language to master than others we'll see. But in the other direction, it is closer to the system and therefore more powerful.
Start with the C language:
The most popular tutorial in France will probably be a good starting point:
https://openclassrooms.com/courses/apprenez-a-programmer-en-c
For resources in English, you will find an excellent tutorial on tutorialspoint:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/
Programming in C ++:
Here is a sample code in C ++:
C ++ is also very popular. It is probably used in most of the software you know.
It uses the C language with some differences including the fact that it is object-oriented.
Start with C ++:
You can read up via the official website:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
Interesting courses are also available on the website developpez.net:
http://cpp.developpez.com/cours/
Here is another interesting tutorial in English:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/
On a real example, here ProSysLib, a C ++ utility that provides details of the current process:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28547/ProSysLib-Dissecting-the-Process
Programming C #:
C # is the main competitor of the Java language. It looks like Java on certain points, including the fact that it is an object oriented programming language itself, too.
But it is not portable in the sense that it is reserved for Microsoft systems.
Here is a code sample taken from YAPM program (Yet Another Process Monitor) available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaprocmon/
You can read the differences between C # and Java at the following address:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ms836794.aspx
At the same time, C # looks like C ++ (and C) on its syntax you will find differences here:
http://dotnet.developpez.com/articles/migration/cpp_vers_csharp/#3
Another comparison, but this time with VB.NET. The C # language belongs to the same family as the VB.NET language especially because they are both "compiled" into an intermediate language called MSIL same(Microsoft Intermediate Language).
The big difference is by cons at the syntax, I'm enjoying the YAPM program to show you a VB.NET code (because some part of the program are in VB.NET, which is entirely possible within Visual Studio ):
The VB.NET language is often used (wrongly or rightly) for beginners as it is very easy to understand and use.
Including Visual Studio allows to write very fast program for Windows.
Here is the program YAPM once launched:
Start with C #:
Here is an introduction to C # using the Microsoft website:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/vstudio/z1zx9t92%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
And here's a tutorial on Openclassrooms:
https://openclassrooms.com/courses/apprenez-a-developper-en-c
Programming in Python:
An example of Python code:
This code is taken from a monitoring tool for process and system:
https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil
Here is the interface of the tool in question (Linux):
Python is fast becoming popular language. It is object-oriented and portable. It can therefore be used for several different types of programs, and the interface that you see in the picture above is that of a "console" interface, but Python can very well be used to create user interfaces classics.
Start with Python:
Here are two interesting links to start with Python:
General Resources
Here are finally some sites that allow you to learn the algorithms, the programming paradigm and programming languages themselves (all):
Where to go:
You should now, through this article and the links given, know what you want to program and what language do. You therefore have to learn the basics and to take an example by trying to compile and edit.
If you have other more technical questions, I will answer with pleasure. And if you have other resources to offer to learn, do not hesitate to share 
Happy learning.
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