What is a good begging programming language to learn?

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » February 4th, 2005, 2:18 am

I know HTML already, so I want to learn a new language like Visual Basic, C, etc. What one is the best to start off in? and is there any thing that might make it a little easier for me?

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » February 4th, 2005, 3:04 am

VB .NET For a while Microsoft was offering it for free from their website back in June, but they dont' have that offer anymore. The cheapest you can get it for now is $110 I think. It's easy enough and it won't be obsolete for long enough. If you don't want to put up the bucks, you can always try the VB Express 2005 Beta from Microsoft's site. For your purposes it should be just fine.

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » February 4th, 2005, 3:24 am

thank you. that is what i was thinking about. i have a book on .net already so i will read some of that and learn it. I think software pricing is a little extreme.

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » February 4th, 2005, 3:29 am

and its downloaded, hopefully it wont screw up mi computadora

alarmnetace · Post by **alarmnetace** » March 21st, 2005, 8:33 pm

If this is your first foray into programming itself, you might want to try PASCAL for educations's sake. But yeah, VB.Net is pretty useful out of the box and you can train a monkey to program in it, so anything you learn about programming itself should be easily applied in VB.NET. Make sure to look up some good websites on the .net framework itself, as that's the point of learning VB.NET.

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » March 21st, 2005, 8:34 pm

Right, you learn VB.NET to facilitate the learning of more advanced languages like C#.NET later. VB.NET lets you become familiar with CLR and other .NET stuff.

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » March 22nd, 2005, 4:30 am

I actually kinda changed my mind. I was talking to this guy and his logic seemed very good. I am going to learn C, at least as much as I can and them move on to somthing like Java, not real set in my mind yet. Any suggestions?

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » March 23rd, 2005, 12:02 am

ThManDan22 wrote:I actually kinda changed my mind. I was talking to this guy and his logic seemed very good. I am going to learn C, at least as much as I can and them move on to somthing like Java, not real set in my mind yet. Any suggestions?

C is pretty outdated anymore. If you really want to start out with a challenge try C++.

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » March 23rd, 2005, 5:37 am

Smartweb wrote:
ThManDan22 wrote:I actually kinda changed my mind. I was talking to this guy and his logic seemed very good. I am going to learn C, at least as much as I can and them move on to somthing like Java, not real set in my mind yet. Any suggestions?
C is pretty outdated anymore. If you really want to start out with a challenge try C++.

what is the main diffrence? How much harder fo you think it would be to learn?

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » March 23rd, 2005, 10:04 pm

C++ has object oriented features, and since all popular languages these days use them, learning to program with those will reduce the learning curve later on. In other words, it's helpful to learn them. It's not hard, though.

pathachio · Post by **pathachio** » March 25th, 2005, 7:44 pm

is it not easier to learn C before C++?

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » March 25th, 2005, 7:46 pm

C might be easier, but it's a waste of time imo.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » March 26th, 2005, 8:45 pm

Start off with c

CrashCore · Post by **CrashCore** » July 22nd, 2005, 6:36 am

I was thinking about learning C for a while now, but I don't know if I'm ready yet. I know batch (not really a language...) really well, HTML/JS well, and some BASIC variants. Could I learn C/C++? P.S. I'm 14 if that changes anything.