Right now I'm self-teaching myself C, only because I've heard about it a lot, and I have limited experience with HTML, if that counts. I'm finding C pretty easy to understand so far, but I'm curious as to what you recommend.
What language is your favorite, and why? What do you think is the best language for a beginner to start with?
2006-07-23 15:37:12 · 8 answers · asked by Tim 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Go with C! You'll find that many languages look a lot like C, so none of your time with C is ever wasted. Once you get comfortable with C check out Java. Note the similarity? Hope so...they're almost identical, IMO. I've easily ported Java to C.
I don't want to aggravate too many people (because we get attached to our favorite language) so I won't name names. But if you look at some of the other languages, they appear to have copied ideas from C. Why? It's an ingenious language. Again, none of your time with C will be wasted. And you may discover that you will never need another language to accomplish all that you wish to achieve in programming.
2006-07-23 17:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by gene_frequency 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on what you want to do. C is not very good for displaying web pages and HTML is not very good at programming things like robots and ATM machines. The difference is that C and it's derivatives are procedural as opposed to controlling a remote machine like HTML.
Depending how hardcore you want to be, write something in C and get the compiler to print out the assembly language decode.
Although it is becoming uncommon for most people to write in assembler, it will teach you alot about how machines really work. It will give you the building blocks to move ot something like C then to object orientated languages like C++ of Java.
Good luck.
2006-07-23 22:59:08 · answer #2 · answered by granpagts1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C is probably a great place to start, it's not too hard, but it can be used for practical things. A lot depends on what kind of stuff you want to write. Visual Basic is handy for writing code that links to all those fancy web controls you see on web sites. You can branch out into C++ or really get into Java. The possibilities are endless.
2006-07-23 22:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C is pretty old already.
The industry standard now is Java.
You could go to www.java.sun.com and download the J2SE to install on your PC for your learning purposes.
There are also plenty of books out there which teach you Java. Java is very similar to C, and a lot "safer" as well, such as checked exceptions when you try to access an array and your pointer goes out of bounds.
2006-07-23 22:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by comage83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u like C and ready to go with HTML, perhaps the best programming language are PHP (see www.php.net). It is easy to understand, not so strict as C itself, have many forums and supports, lot of free-stuff even CMS-engine (e.g. Mambo, Limbo, PhpNuke),..
I've been using PHP for 4 years, and it never disappoint me :)
2006-07-23 22:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by agung_cz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Web programming - go for PHP script.
Client-server programming - go for Java language or C++
Multimedia programming - go for Lingo script.
* Always go for open-platform programming language. You don't want to be trap in situation where you will be "vendor lock-in".
* Programming language and scripting not the same.
2006-07-23 22:44:07 · answer #6 · answered by dranagar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visual BASIC
It's fast and easy.
No { }
No ;
no "include" files
and it has lots of library routines.
You can find old versions of VB4 and VB 6 on Ebay pretty cheap.
Go download and check out one of my biggest selling software items:
http://members.tripod.com/~erdprod/cdcover.html
I think I put it together in a week, including Alpha testing and the install set-up.
2006-07-24 00:06:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pearl
that is if you would like to master UNIX
2006-07-26 14:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by St Guido 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋