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Originally Posted by porigromus
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I work in IT but do not know how to program. I work with programmers, I often think about learning to program but feel I may be too old now to try!
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There are a lot of free resources online to learn how to code and free IDE's (integrated development environments) to code in. Eclipse is a good one, can be used for coding Java, C++, Actionscript, Perl, etc. I'm not sure how relevant it is to the eq server programming but it's a start.
As has been previously said, if you understand the concepts of programming such as what variables are, the difference between strings and integers, what a for loop and while loop are, what Boolean logic and if/case statements are and what arrays are you can, with a little practice, pick up any coding language. They all essentially do those same functions just with different syntax and either compiled or are script languages. Some languages are better for certain tasks
Don't be daunted it's not as hard as it seems to pick up, and if you use it a lot you will find yourself getting better quickly.