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I've been wanted to try programming for a while now, but I had no idea where to start! Which language should I start with? Are each of them capable of doing the same things? What did you start off with? Where can I get what I need? Will I need books and other tools like that?

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What kind of programming do you want to do? Do you want to make programs for Windows, or websites, or linux, Mac, what?

Windows starting out with simple things...

tiagosilva29 I am looking at that thread now.... but everyone seems to have a different preference.

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It depends where you're up to, if you have done absolutely nothing along the lines of programming, i would recommend just stuffing around with javascript (tutorials at http://www.echoecho.com), as it is easier to use, and much less debugging is involved. Just using this to get some idea of programming is a good way to start.

If you've already done stuff like that, or just talking about actual computer programming stuff, I would recommend c, or visual basic, like other people have said.

A good, easy C tutorial i have found is at http://www.iota-six.co.uk/c/default.asp

Hope this helps :)

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If you plan on learning to make some proggies for Windows I'd definately start out with VB.Net. It's probably the easiest one and its a good primer if you want to get into object oriented stuff like Java or C++, C#.

There are probably some nice tutorials out there to get u started with VB or you can get a nice book for 20 bucks. Its pretty easy once you get the ball rolling. I had to start with Pascal and that was a nightmare, VB is the hooked on phonics of programming yet you can still make some fairly complex stuff with it.

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I would look into Visual Basic then, or one of the .NET languages (VB.NET, C#) (Y)

It doesn't make sense to learn VB6 and then move on to VB.Net; they are very different. You're best bet is to go directly to .Net since the older software is hard to find these days.

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I'd go with C#. I'm not a big fan of VB for various reasons. C# is elegant, nice and terse and is a good grounding for other languages like Java, "conventional" C or C++. Plus, you'll get to learn all the cool .NET stuff.

If you've got no programming experience at all, I'd second the recommendation of Javascript. Nice and simple to start off with.

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