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What order should a person learn computer languages in? What should you start off with? Learning about binary and then move on chronologically as things were developed, or are there things that you can just completely skip and ignore because they're not important...or by skipping and ignoring those things are you going to miss out on important exploits that you otherwise wouldn't notice?

@Jazzy_Butts if you were REALLY determined you could try learning ASM but i think the best way is to learn relatively easy languages first, basic stuff inside HTML, JS, and Python. After that just learn C++/C# and you'll have pretty much everything you'll ever need as a programmer, even if things get updated or new languages come out you'll actually understand all the concepts and then it's just a matter of learning what words to type.

ASM = Assembly, it's machine code. Extremely low level. If you can learn that you can do some pretty powerful stuff but it's a pretty difficult language.

@beardalaxy @Jazzy_Butts something reasonable like the warcraft 3 map editor. or rpg maker. most of my early programming was from a pirated copy of visual basic 6 i was mailed, not understanding what was going on, but the mod tools for games back then included visual script editors so you got to kind of fiddle around with things easily.

there is a reason multimedia fusion (and i suppose, game maker) launched so many careers.
@beardalaxy @Jazzy_Butts if you can complete a minecraft tech modpack you can develop software. I'd start there. Seriously, good advice by BEARD: it's all problem solving and concepts. I'd say pay a visit to functional languages after basic c#/C++ and don't get sucked into C++, it's a quagmire if you go too deep
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