What r the best way to learn a programing language

in my view programming is easy to learn if. 1.interested on the language 2.willing to suffer for the sake of knowlege 3.resourceful 4.time,time,time lots of time 5.patience on work 6.learn the magic of trial and error 7.don't limit for knowlege expand to your needs .............thats how my principle goes....... ..................hope this help...............

Those who say that you should practise your skills are right. But it would be a good idea to find some certain areas of interest, what kind of software you would like to create: drivers, games, demos with animation, system progs ... It will help you not sink in the variety of programming fields...

I think the best way to learn a programming language is to learn it along with a data structure implementation. i wolud prefer Mark Allen Weiss's book to be read along while learning any language. You can continuously implement the algorithms given there and hence would make best progress in the understanding of the language as well as the data structures.

In my opinion, the best way to learn a programming language is by reading tutorials on the internet. This is how i learned VB, C, C#, Java, PHP and ASP. They teach us programming at school aswell, but it's not worth half of what i've learned all by myself from tutorials. Also, once you know one programming language, it's not so hard to switch between them.

if you know c/c++ its easy , i think herbert schield might help if you are asking about java,, helped me a lot

When i want to learn a new programming language i use to download example code and "dissect" it to learn

Decide on a small project, nothing too ambitious and then learn the parts of the programming language you need to create the project. Get that working and then expand on your knowledge.

The best way to learn a programming language is to have a quick resource on its basic syntax and try creating simple programs first. It's a step by step procedure - there really is no shortcut to it. You better try to forget deeper ideas like abstract implementation - in order to learn a programming language, one must first master its syntax. You won't go anywhere if your code always incurs syntax errors. Once you can develop simple programs then you can gradually move to bigger projects. Then that's the time you apply those ideas like n-tier architecture and abstract programming. Learning a programming language is like learning how to write - before you can write a sentence, you need to know how to write letters; and before you can make a story, you need to know how to write sentences.

i think the easiest way is ::: 1) install a compiler in your system 2) follow any standard text program 3) start writing programs.