What is the best/easy language to learn?

[JinLien]

Is VB a good programing language to start for a 12 years old?

 

[Sheepathon]

Swahili FTW.

 

[Zanix]

qbasic

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: JinLien

Is VB is a good programing language to start for a 12 years old?

English...you already have a good start.

 

[DaveSimmons]

VB.Net has much more future than VB6.

C++ and C# are probably better than either VB for learning "real" programming since they don't hide as much from you and because they use more standardized commands and data types, but I haven't tried VB.Net so perhaps it's not as eccentric as VB6.

I'm not saying VB6 is a bad language, just that it's an odd one shackled by its BASIC heritage.

 

[AdamSnow]

Esperanto

 

[JinLien]

Originally posted by: Zanix
qbasic

That was the language I started on in the 80s and then Pascal.

Swahili != Programming language.

What are good books to get for my 12 year old nephew that is interested in computer & possibly programming?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: JinLien
What are good books to get for my 12 year old nephew that is interested in computer & possibly programming?

A "for dummies" book is not an awful choice -- it will use simple writing that is easy to understand.

After that it depends on the language, like Deitel for C++.

 

[ShadowBlade]

English

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
English

feeble joke already neffed, with variations.

 

[HN]

what about that one with the 'turtle' and you can draw a four sided square and when you can fill in the square to make a solid square you're like whoa :Q

 

[DaWhim]

chinese