Which Programming Language To Learn?

[PimpHolic]

i am new to programming but am interested to learn a language. which is a good language for a starter? i was thinking of learning java.

[Murf]

Thats a good one to start also may want to consider C++
http://www.vb-bookmark.com/CppTutorial.html

Also may want to take a basic HTML course to get the basic down.



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[PimpHolic]

thnx a lot

[SuperSparks]

Visual Basic or Delphi are by far the easiest to learn if you're starting from scratch - VB especially. You may find Java very hard going until you've got some general programming experience, it's not a friendly language.

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[Centurion55]

If you want a low cost and simple language to learn the very basics (as in loops, variables, etc.) then you could try Quick Basic. Its already on your windows 95/98 cdrom and it is simple. You don't have to worry about a Graphical user interface, because its in dos (command line only, but its good to learn, and very similar to Visual basic). Learning a language like Java or C++ might be difficult if you have no experience at all.

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[bkell]

If you want to go directly into Windows programming, I'd go with VB or Delphi. They're easy to learn, as has already been said.

The tricky part here is object-oriented programming. It's pretty strange when you first learn it (at least it was for me), so if you want to learn programming comprehensively, I'd start with a non-OO language. QBasic is the best non-OO language I know of. (It's on the Windows 95 CD under \OTHER\OLDMSDOS - I think - and it's somewhere on the Windows 98 CD too.)

Once you've mastered QBasic, you can move on to its object-oriented counterpart, Visual Basic. A watered-down version comes with Office, but if you want the whole thing, you'll need to buy it.

VB is used quite a bit in the "real world," but the really good thing to know is C++. Unfortunately, compared to VB, C++ looks like a cat just walked across your keyboard.

I don't know if this helped or not--it's just my little ramblings.

[Zinzan]

If I was going to start learning a language it would be XML. In the next couple of years (IMHO) HTML will be superceded by XML giving closer, almost complete, integration between software packages (such as WP's and Spreadsheets) and the internet. I'm not too sure, but XML differs to HTML in that you can define your own tags rather than use the pre-defined tags of HTML.

eg XML

<THIS TAG IS FOR BOLD TEXT> BOLD TEXT</THIS TAGE IS FOR BOLD TEXT>

Bad example, I knowm, but you get the picture

Zin

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