A good language to start with?

[Agent]

Originally posted by tonicblue
From My experience
Start with Visual Basic or ASP (more or less the same) so you have a basic understanding of what the hell is going on. after a month or so when u can problem solve and you know how to use all statements and loops and lots of other stuff, (a good knowlege of how it works), Look at PHP or C/C++. If ur switching to Linux PHP or C/C++ would be a nice one but they look impossible to learn if you have no experience.

If you find it like this, fair enough, but in my experience, PHP syntax and programing is much easier than ASP's - loops especially, i don't know how you could make loops any simpler in PHP.
PHP loop example :

<?
//make array
$numberarray = array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );

//for each number of the array, set it to $singlenumber while in the loop
foreach ( $numberarray as $singlenumber )

//start loop
{ 

//say the number and start a new line
echo "number  $singlenumber <br>";

//end loop
}

?>

super easy

[c0w]

depends what type of stuff you wanna do with the language, ie the platform. if u wanna make like windows software then yeah c++ and java are good but i wouldn't recommend jumpin rite in and playing with them because yeah it will be all good at the start when it's nice and easy but when you want to start doing harder thing you will find your self gettin stuck very quickly start with somethin easy like vb and stuff learn structure and get with xml as well and get them running together then start to dabble with a bit of c++ and all you will find this a lot easy and less complicated.

c0w

[tonicblue]

Originally posted by Agent
If you find it like this, fair enough, but in my experience, PHP syntax and programing is much easier than ASP's - loops especially, i don't know how you could make loops any simpler in PHP.
PHP loop example :

<?
//make array
$numberarray = array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );

//for each number of the array, set it to $singlenumber while in the loop
foreach ( $numberarray as $singlenumber )

//start loop
{ 

//say the number and start a new line
echo "number  $singlenumber <br>";

//end loop
}

?>

super easy

Yeah. it is a simple syntax Im glad I started coding in it, I just thought ASP was simpler cos its more english looking and i got scared off when i looked at PHP sample code. lol. hmmmm. PHP would probably be better to learn first thinking about it. Oh well. I know both now

[Darkmatter]

Pascal is good starting point very old now, but you can get a free version of Pascal from Borland.

Next step from Pascal is Delphi, Delphi is an object orientated evolution of Pascal very simple, and again i believe there is a free basic version of Delphi 7 thats available.

[Nemeliza]

I was taught Delphi at college. Its not a hard language to pick up, i was shown some OOP examples in Ielphi and i remember thinking "WTF is that!". Learning the syntax is a piece of cake, but understanding the logics and how to apply them is a motherf*r.

[Private Pyle]

I'd suggest delphi, but ive been using it for years and years for a living so would be biased.

[Nick2k]

C++ / java / HTML

[DaBeeeenster]

I don't think C++ would be a good language to start with !

[MrFlibble]

Originally posted by DaBeeeenster
I don't think C++ would be a good language to start with !

Agreed. Also HTML, whilst undeniably easy, is not a programming language as such, it's a markup language.