I want to learn a programing language and at the same time know what happens in the computer. What is this cal

Question

Electronic engineers know about boolean, transistors, resistors logic and they had a language called basic that perhaps every word was a particular circuit inside the computer hardware ,registers, RAM, ROM all these things but today computers build more computers and the circuits are larger and larger, I think there is not enough intelligence in a human been to be able to follow the whole , so by speciallizing in a particular area they are able to explain and work with a software program, either animation, web art, or many others. So if you can not afford to go to a good teacher in a very expensive university all you can get is to become a user or otherwise in the middle of the web you are nothing being fired from every angle by all these companies trying to make billions from all the users although I had a good faith trying to learn and do something beautiful. So I thought that if I knew a program that I can let them know my creativity as well such as a tribial ring a star, etc.Thanks

Answer 1

Here is a web page with some computer basics that you can use.
http://www.basichardware.com/how_tos.html

Then get a COLLEGE level programming book on HTML coding which is what most web pages use,
and go through the book page by page, don't skip, step by step, exercise by exercise.

When you finish learning from the site above, and the book, you will have the beginning of knowledge to make you understand a few things, and be able to do some things with your creativity.

Hope you get off to a good start. It's all fun
stw

Answer 2

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but I know that I can work with a variety of applications with what I at least consider expert-level abilities. I can program and know many different areas of programming, I can design websites, do 3D work, and so on. Sorry, sounds like I'm bragging.

You didn't really state a question clearly, though, so I'm going out on a limb here.

But the point is you don't need to specialize. You need to understand how a computer works, not at the level of circuits and boolean logic, but at the level of objects and inheritance and polymorphism and why the OS does what it does when it does it. Then you can pretty much master any program or situation you happen to be in.

And, of course, this isn't 1995. User interfaces are very straightforward and designed to be easy to use... unless you're using interfaces designed by the programmer (read: most of Linux and GNU programs.) Macs in particular are very easy for anybody to pick up and do things that were very advanced a while ago, like video chat.

The language you mentioned, BASIC, is nothing like that. It was a pretty simple programming language and you really couldn't do much with it. It wasn't the low-level sort of thing you were referring to. Assembly is more along those lines, where you could (and still can) directly access memory registers and do things with them.

Langauges like BASIC and COBOL and Fortran are not used any more (despite what the poster above has said) and most COBOL programs are legacy code, supported only because nobody can untangle it and translate it into a better, more robust form. They become so tangled and spaghetti-like that it's impossible to extract anything useful from them, so they stay around because at least they work.

Most programs now, even mainframes, are C++ or Java, because they are Object Oriented and easy to support.
Anyway, that was a bit rambling. If you could state your question more clearly, perhaps I'd be able to answer better.

Answer 3

If you want to work in the large mainframe computer area.... the most common business language that is used today is COBOL...it's been around for years...to get down to machine language step by step instructions for the computer...learn ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE..it also has been around for years...

Check out being a Systems Analyst or a Programmer

for PCs there are many languages that you can learn..C..Fortran..Basic..C++..Several newer languages.

Good luck on your venture...."O" Wise One Knows...

Answer 4

Not sure what you ask, but you sounded like an engineer perhaps you do want Assembly on a sort of enbedded device; perhaps a Intel 8051 on a toy. Assembly on computers are too complex.

Answer 5

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