• 0

which is the best programming language to learn?


Question

Recommended Posts

  • 0

everyone tells me VB is the best if you're just starting out..then C++

But I don't program, its just whats i've been told...so i can't say from personal experience

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

Really you should start with something simple like Basic Visual Basic, so you can learn the basics and concepts in an easy to use environment. Once you have started that, you really have 2 ways to go: Continue VB or go C++. IMHO C++ is a lot more useful (Linux :) ), and will be in the future.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

As a Delphi programmer I suggest Delphi. Easy to learn syntax (OO Pascal) and a nice IDE to work with.

Ofcource it depends on what kind of apps you would like to develop. You can do em all whit delphi, but for the extra speed maby c++ is better (and in most cases you don't need that speed).

I've not tryied C# myself, but it looks kind a nice when you read about it.

But for rapid application development in windows (and linux/qt (kylix)) go for Delphi.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

I started with Basic - it's a crap language, but that doesn't matter.

Once you know one language, you start to understand the basic logic that stays true with every language. Once you've learn't basic, C, Perl, PHP and such aren't tricky.

Once you know Print "", printf(""); isn't much harder :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

ah, basic... how I miss those days....

10 LET A = 1

20 PRINT A

30 LET A = A + 1

40 GOTO 20

That was a fun one to do on an apple IIe and let it run all week... :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

VB is probably the easiest to learn, but Java is definitely more useful... it is so versatile. C++ is a precursor to java and it'll die eventually. You'd just be wasting ur time with it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

I'd recommend Delphi for the following reasons:

- easy to learn

- great IDE

- much more powerful than VB

- Delphi 6 PE is free for personal use (www.borland.com)

- compile standalone prgs (no runtime libs)

- tons of quality freeware components out there

- the Delphi community (you're not alone in case you need help)

:cool:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0
Originally posted by zivan56

I would say DELPHI, but I dont use it since Visual Basic is more affordable :D , but Delphi combines VB and C++ and needs no dll's to run the apps!

You can download Delphi for free (personal use only and 140Mb though)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

well at college we started on the basic stuff, doing pascal and qbasic at the minute... quite fun to learn especially since it a telecommunications course and has nothing to do with programming

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

VB is good to start off with then goto C++ or java. VB makes everything seem logical. C++ is sweet. Java just ends up agrivating me (mabey I should have gone to class more).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

HEHE, i remember writting cute games and little VGA CGI movies with Qbasic for DOS, then QuickBasic :) but for right now, Java is the best for beginners, followed by superior C++, VB is easy but wont get you very far, lol.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0
Originally posted by IceHawk

yes

No!

HTML is not a programming language. It's a markup language, the sort of which all word processors used to use (until funky GUIs!).

Also, Java isn't the replacement for C++. C, C++ and Java are all simply different languages and none are replacments for any other - C++ is badly named in this respect. The designers wanted it to replace C but in actual fact it turned out to be a valid alternative with it's own place. Java's main strength is portability. C++ is fairly object oriented, java is very OO (I'm getting out of my depth now :) ).

C++ is probably most used for Windows apps, but only because it's name tricks people into think it's an all around better alternative to C.

I don't like Java on the bases it because an PHB fad. Clueless managers picked it up as a buzzword and promptly made their developers port code to java because it's the next big thing. It isn't. It's good for a project that suits it, it's not for a project that doesn't.

As I said, all 3 have their uses.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

the easiest to begin with is JavaScript (which has nothing to do with Java)... it's ideal for learning the basic tricks you'll find in most programming languages (e.g. iterations and stuff).

and what's more: you don't need anything except for notepad and a browser!

then you can move on...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

at the moment i am studying java at the college and before that i've learned c/c++. i suggest you those too cause i saw that learning c/c++ makes you learn the others more easy like java. also vb is an option but i strongly recommend you starting with c/c++ in order to understand the object oriented languages

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

To learn fundamental programming skills, i suggest Qbasic or Visual Basic. To learn the best and most widely used developpers programming language use c/c++. Stick with console programming and then advance to windows. There's a lot more overhead once you develop windows so it's best to learn in dos.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

i believe Xain and Goalie_CA summed it up pretty well... and btw the simplest way to start getting the idea of what programing is about is from DOS Qbasic and the sort, cuz you dont have to bother with classes, objects, doubly linked lists etc yet :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

In the following order I learned

Spectrum Basic

C64 Basic

Pascal

C++

Assembler (limited tho !)

Visual Basic (pretty simple building on basic)

Delphi(pretty simple building on pascal)

Haskell

Prolog

Java

They all suck btw ! :)

I'd suggest Pascal to be completely honest, no **** that you really need to program nowadays, but it will teach you the basics of all programming languages. I wonder if I can find my space invaders for pascal 6 I know its here somewhere .............

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.