# Gateways to Programming

URL: /show/coder-radio/1/
> Michael and Chris introduce our new weekly software development podcast. We start with a look at ways beginners can get started with development. Plus we chat about the issues new developers face entering a market dominated by App stores. Then –  How platform vendors are feeling the need to reclaim greater control from developers.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 1
- Date: 2012-06-11
- Hosts: chris, michael
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/02OnmKa4vg4





### Episode Links

#### What is Coder Radio?

  * Background info (premise, etc)

#### Gateways to Programming

  * First Programming Language / Platform
  * Is there a best programming language / Platform?
  * Tools you may already have and not know about
  * Tools for learning programming
  * [QBasic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic/index.html)
  * Visual Programming Tools
  * [Google-Blockly](http://code.google.com/p/google-blockly/index.html)
  * [Illumination Software Creator](http://radicalbreeze.com/index.html)

#### Because We were Stupid and We were Lazy

  * Security implications of bad programming
  * Hardware implications of bad programming
  * OS stability implications of bad programming
  * Mac OS X Gatekeeper
  * Windows 8 App Store
  * Ubuntu Software Center

#### Tool of the Week

  * [Koding](https://beta.koding.com/index.html)