Hello everyone.
With Autumm aproaching fast the new season of scholarships are around the corner. I want to apply to a postgrad program in Physical Quemisty, but since most of the high end research that are done these days needs, to a certain degree, programming skills. I want to make my curriculum more interesting so the scholarships judge stop for at least 5 more seconds on my resume, one way to accomplish that is to put in the mix some Progamming courses.
But this is the "hard" part: What I want is to be able to make programs that can handle middle-sized algorithms without crashing, of course to be able make simulations and that kind of things. But since I don't have not even remote knowledge of programming don't know where to start, I looked for some courses but that got me a little confused.
I've found "Java Programming" and .NET programming. I don't have a single idea if I can achieve what I want with those lenguage and here is where you enter. I need advice on which lenguage you recommend for starters and which is the most science oriented (if such one exist).
(The .NET programming course I have found incluse topics like C# and VB.NET, but I'm a total newbie and don't know what those things mean, looked on internet and found someone that oversimplified that, he said: that .NET programming is drag-and-drop buttoms... don't know how robust could be a program designed on that lenguage, but again I don't know much of programmin)
(in case you are wondering: I graduated from a 3rd world country university and they din't offered any extracurricular activity, thats why I don't have any expirience programming)
With Autumm aproaching fast the new season of scholarships are around the corner. I want to apply to a postgrad program in Physical Quemisty, but since most of the high end research that are done these days needs, to a certain degree, programming skills. I want to make my curriculum more interesting so the scholarships judge stop for at least 5 more seconds on my resume, one way to accomplish that is to put in the mix some Progamming courses.
But this is the "hard" part: What I want is to be able to make programs that can handle middle-sized algorithms without crashing, of course to be able make simulations and that kind of things. But since I don't have not even remote knowledge of programming don't know where to start, I looked for some courses but that got me a little confused.
I've found "Java Programming" and .NET programming. I don't have a single idea if I can achieve what I want with those lenguage and here is where you enter. I need advice on which lenguage you recommend for starters and which is the most science oriented (if such one exist).
(The .NET programming course I have found incluse topics like C# and VB.NET, but I'm a total newbie and don't know what those things mean, looked on internet and found someone that oversimplified that, he said: that .NET programming is drag-and-drop buttoms... don't know how robust could be a program designed on that lenguage, but again I don't know much of programmin)
(in case you are wondering: I graduated from a 3rd world country university and they din't offered any extracurricular activity, thats why I don't have any expirience programming)