newbie programmer

[flyingllama]

i'm just starting to try to learn how to program and i was wondering if anybody had any helpful tips or knows of some good sites for begginers. thanks

[flyingllama]

by the way.. whats a compiler and how does it work?

[cypher1919]

im a beginner too and i found this java site to be good
http://www.java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/win32.html

also

www.htmlgoodies.com/

[aym]

The computer's CPU doesn't understand code written in high level languages (Java, C ...), it only understands machine code, and the compiler is a program that converts high level code into machine code, so the CPU can execute programs written in high level languages.