Reddit Learns Programming

I'm trying to learn JAVA so that would be my choice for a language to study. But I can see the benefit of having the group focus on general programming topics and letting people work out the kinks of their preferred language on their own.

Alright then. My suggestion to stay somewhat language agnostic is to go with a text that involves implementation of data structures/algorithms. That way we have general material to learn about and we can even learn a bit more about each others' languages by posting our results.

"Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in ..." is a book that has versions in several languages available online.

The page seems a little dated but even if we only get the practice problems and some guidelines it sounds like it would be fine. There are examples in a bunch of languages.

Link here: http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus4/

If we're studying a language, then I suggest C (K&R) or Python (Dive Into Python or Dive Into Python 3). If we're going on the second option, then HTDP or SICP would be nice.

Either way, I'm in.

I'm currently learning python as well. Have the "dive" text online but also have the "Learning Python" O'reilly book in hardcover (which i'd prefer to use, but don't want to make people buy books here!). One up-vote for Python.

I would like to do something in python. Although, I'm also interested in the just general data structures/ algorithms.

AWESOME. My first thought was "python" - I'm glad to see 3 or 4 others thinking the same way.

I think that the people who started this class moved on to the MIT 6.00 Intro to Comp. Sci class (which uses python). I'm not sure if everyone did that, but that class is very active and is a good introduction to python.