what programing language should i learn?

[Colt45]

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maybe i want to do it for fun and not money, ever think of that?

 

[b0mbrman]

Find out how to use Fortran. Now that's some powerful stuff.

Mario

 

[GoldenBear]

Learn how to program on a TI.

 

Depends what you want to do:

Business programming:
C++
Java
Visual Basic

Web programming:
Java
Scripting languages (PERL/ASP/JSP/PHP/JavaScript)

System programming:
C/C++
ASM

 

[BrintonAA]

If you are starting out from scratch and want to experiment with programming, Visual Basic is great and it is also used by many businesses, or if you don't want to spend any money except for a book, you can buy a book on Java and then download the SDK from Sun Microsystems. This is a good programming language also.

Compilers for Java

Microsoft (for Visual Basic)
You can buy visual basic at most large computer stores.
Leraning Edition or Standard would proabably be fine for starters. You will want the professional edition if you start to develop seriously. Also, if you are a student you can get great academic prices at Software Showcase

 

[GhettoFob]

I found that Java was pretty easy to pick up on. Don't learn Scheme, I find it pretty useless. argg, gotta get back to my cs project: a scheme evaluator in c :disgust:

 

[jthsmak]

same problem. I am a few years shy of any programming courses. I can do a lot with ti calculator basic and I used to know qbasic (gorilla modifications). I own m$ visual studio with visual c++, vbasic and vj++ and a delphi thing so money isnt a prob. I tried teaching myself c++ a while back but it was a lot harder than my ticalc and I don't have any good resources. ASM is daunting (my hello world was pages long). I want to stay away from basic, its just too dumb. Another thing to consider is my poor math skillz. I found that using visual c++ for just a compiler was helpful with all my code errors. Web-languages just seem pointless to me but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Stealth1024]

&quot;And why VB, may I ask?&quot; - because event driven languages are great to start out on, unless you want to do QBASIC or something stupid...

One of my favorite languages (although pretty much useless for doing anything useful is Pascal). The one I use the most is C++, and of course I have a strong foundation in Visual Basic.

 

[nd]

I recommend Python for learning. If you asked a large &quot;diverse&quot; group of programmers (rather than the off topic forum of a hardware-oriented) board, a lot more people would be mentioning Python as well. The number of people blindly suggesting C++ here makes you guys look quite silly 🙂

 

[DamienVorlion]

learn to program a TI and VB...eeeeeewwwwwww. Now a HP-48 and some x86 or mips assembly would do those persons right. I loved the old days of using the debug command to program dos assembly but now its all bloated graphic windows stuff done on VB to save time and money.

Wow, I jsut checked my disk box and found Turbo Pascal 7.0, MASM 6.11, and Borland C++ 4.5, thats a good 5-7 years back, I wonder if the disks are still good.

 

[Antoneo]

Visual Basic was a waste of time for me... took a vb course in highschool and basically was retold everything i already knew. try learning php or c++ like the others said.

 

[andalas]

Learn Java and C++ for core programming.
Plus perl for making usefull tools to helps
your everyday computing life also emacs lisp
if you have time 🙂

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

Another vote for pascal

 

[PCResources]

<< Another vote for pascal >>



LOL....

It's actually a very good programming language, and if you were to compare Delphi with VB, Delphi wins hands down...

If you are thinking about VB, use Delphi instead, or go right into the nitty gritty with C/C++, i am quite fond of Perl and Python though...

Patrick