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[SandraV]

Yuiichi, My interests start with programming for websites and blogs. Part of my business is desktop publishing which includes websites, blogs, newsletters, etc. I am new to the Mac but I would need to begin with the language there since I am not working on the Windows PC any longer. I did kind of understand that there is no true beginners guide, but something to start with that is not so technical I throw the book but an introduction to computer programming. I will be looking at the curriculum for my community college and see what books they start with. Thanks for your input though. I look forward to seeing the suggestions.

SandraV

[houltmac]

What you are looking at coding really isn't computer programming as such, it's programming for the web. You don't need to learn any machine specific languages but rather cross-platform web-based languages and techniques. Since the code would be stored elsewhere and interpreted by a browser (any browser, on any platform [viz. OS X, Windows, Linux etc.]) you aren't programming for the operating system/platform and as such don't need to worry about that kinda thing.

Starting with blogs and so forth doesn't require any "programming" knowledge at all, it's all user installable and manageable now. You can even customise with templates and then look through the fairly human readable code to change it without having to know it. As I said, none of this is effected by you or your users using a Mac or a PC, simply by the browser they use (viz. Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE etc.)

I don't have any particular resources in mind, but I thought it was worth making that distinction.

[SandraV]

Okay, Houltmac, I will go back to the beginning of the installation information and start there again. I couldn't login as Administrator, which started this whole thing. Since I downloaded the program in the hosting site, Go Daddy, I thought I would automatically be the administrator. However, when I went to login to another link (dzone) it had me listed as a user, which means I probably wouldn't be able to change anything. Thanks for the distinction.

SandraV