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Old 18th December 2011 | 10:05
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under_exposed
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Get a copy of The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie. It will give you the basics of programming.
If you are still interested after that c# allows you to quickly develop applications.
Your biggest problem will be thinking up what you what you want to write.
If you want to do it professionally you will face an uphill struggle. Those companies who have not shipped their development to India will want people with experience. Most commercial applications will be connected to a database so SQL would be worth learning.
I learnt basic at collage, got a summer job doing compiled basic for a few weeks and then they lent me the above book to learn C. After polytechnic I joined them as a C programmer. A few job changes and I covered Visual basic, C#, T/SQL, PL/SQL, java (almost the same as C), various "it writes the code for you" systems (normally to replace them with proper programming languages to get a usable system).
I have been programming for nearly 25 years and absolutely love it. I look forward to going to work!

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Good Luck");
return(0);
}
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