Buying Older Used Books To Learn Programming

There are many sites offer *free courses like codeacademy:

https://www.w3schools.com/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/

*  Not all courses, but some are free:

https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-programming


 I had more links but the UBB parser did seem to destroy the links. 

Edited by TheBeastXL, 22 July 2022 - 10:22 AM.

There are many sites offer *free courses like codeacademy:

 

https://www.w3schools.com/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/

 

*  Not all courses, but some are free:

https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-programming


 I had more links but the UBB parser did seem to destroy the links. 

Interesting..   I only looked at the "edx" link.  By what I see there, BASIC seems to be not popular (and see no listings for any, there).  The language choices seem to be Python,  C, C++, Java.

There are many sites offer *free courses like codeacademy:

 

https://www.w3schools.com/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/

 

*  Not all courses, but some are free:

https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-programming


 I had more links but the UBB parser did seem to destroy the links. 

Thanks.

 

By what I see there, BASIC seems to be not popular (and see no listings for any, there).  The language choices seem to be Python,  C, C++, Java.

 

By definition of the language, BASIC was initially designed for just beginners. Then IBM chose it as the language to be implemented in the original IBM PC BIOS and chose Microsoft to supply it. Since then Microsoft has held onto BASIC and added their enhancements.

ok thanks.

And in my opinion Python is not designed very well either. It has idiosyncrasies resulting from haphazard design, like PHP does. Python, JavaScript and PHP are all worth learning to get a job since there are many jobs available using them but there are also many jobs available using C++, C# and Java. Many developers like C but I much prefer C++.

I've recently developed an interest in programming. I can print out various  Wikipedia articles on a variety of topics. A few days ago I received a 2008 edition of Beginning Programming for Dummies £2.50 including delivery. The new edition comes out in August 2023 at £27.99. Also got a used copy of A Level Computer Science for £5.99
I  see many second hand, older editions of books available, C programming in easy steps 2003. Even though these books are past editions. I assume the programming fundementals, techniques will be the same, C programming, is C Programming is C Programming?  
Am I correct on this, or barking up the wrong tree?
Cheers.

The language evolves, but the fundamentals stay the same for years .