What REAL Programing language should I learn?Why?What do I need to get started with it/ where do i need to go?

Question

Thank you for that last guy who posted talking about microsoft c# and such. Thats a big help although i already know HTML and Javascript so those are out of the picture. BESIDES them
Thank you for all the great answers guys-KEEP THEM COMING!

-sincerely
Peter B

Thank you for that last guy who posted talking about microsoft c# and such. Thats a big help although i already know HTML and Javascript so those are out of the picture.sooo for future answerers please post about languages BESIDES them
Thank you for all the great answers guys-KEEP THEM COMING!

-sincerely
Peter B

Answer 1

I would suggest Java. It is platform independent and widely used. If you look for Software Engineer jobs on employment websites JAVA is by far the most common requirement, and C++ is probably second. (C# is platform specific, is NOT recommended, and is *way* down the list of requirements)
Get started by downloading JAVASE (compiler) and NetBeans (IDE) from java.sun.com (free download). The sun site also includes full documentation including tutorials.
If you plan to go for employment, you would later add JAVAEE.

Answer 2

I've been doing software development, professionally, for about 10 years.

With all the new technologies that have come out around software development, learning how to program from scratch has become increasingly difficult.

For desktop applications, there are currently three programming languages most commonly used in the market, Java, C++ and C#. When I say C++ there are a lot of variations of C++. The Microsoft version of C++ is called Visual C++, but there are other popular versions out there.

If you want to start with desktop applications, I would personally start with KPL (Kid's programming language) it doesn't matter if you are a kid or not, it's still a good starting place. After you've become good at KPL I would get the free Visual Studio Express (which contains C#) or get a Java compiler. I am in the Microsoft camp; however I have developed some with Java. In my partially biased opinion Microsoft's C# is FAR superior to Java. Also, with the advent of Mono (built my Novel), C# applications can run in Java and Mac OS. After you become good at C# or Java, that's when I would recommend going to C++ if you wanted.

Java, C# are both based on C++ which is based on C. However, I wouldn't dive into C++ strait off.

If you want to go into the web market, there is a huge division between Microsoft development and Linux development. If you head down the Microsoft camp, you will need to learn: Classic ASP, ASP.NET, AJAX, C# Web Services, JavaScript, HTML, and how to configure IIS, If you head down the Linux camp, you will probably need to learn PHP or Python, JavaScript, and HTML. There is also a lot of cross over and there are a few big technologies that are used that I can't remember off the top of my head.

If you want to start along the web development road, I would start by getting an good HTML book, like Teach yourself HTML visually, then start with some JavaScript and find a server side language you are interested in. I'm in the Microsoft Camp, so I would recommend C# with ASP.NET

Answer 3

As a developer, I recommend working in windows based applications, meaning creating programs that could run on the operating itself. To learn a programming language is not an easy task, but if you really want to learn, you can start it with C++ as other programming languages were just like C++, It's just to train and create you a foundation for your programming logic. you could use Dev C++ (just search in google) for the C++ compiler.

extra resources can be found at www.planet-source-code.com

Answer 4

Learn C first. After you have a good foundation on C and memory management, learn C++. From there I would choose some Web programming languages.

Answer 5

you can check this website
http://www.codeide.com

There you can try Basic, Pascal, C, Perl, Javascript
and start to have a look and feel about these languages.

Have a nice day

Answer 6

if it was me i would go to ASP.NET or PHP
u can find schools every where
or E-Book/Tutorials

and there's a Video Tutorials on the internet

checkout this
http://www.asp.net
for PHP check this
http://php.net