My school, the School Without Walls in Rochester, NY, USA has an extensive senior-project requirement.
I started my senior year this September, and I decided to go with an idea that I'd been mulling over during the cours eof the summer: learning computer programming languages.
You see, despitre my extensive interest in computers, I've never gone much beyond simple Web work (HTML, rudimentary CSS and Javascript). So I wanted to expand what I could do with the last two, and learn 'real' programming languages not necessarily atatched to the Internet. C++ was the first thing that came to mind.
However, one of my community advisors pointed out that in his opinion, C++ was rather hard for beginners to start off on, so he suggested Python. (
http://www.python.org) So I'll be working with that, maybe starting with C++ as a side project later in the year once I have a firm grasp of Python.
So, have any of you here really worked with that language before?