[ITZBVAN005]

i was wondering whats the easiest programming language to learn at first and what are good programs to get for that program

[baronvongogo]

Depends what you want to do , I started with visual basic then used a program called darkbasic for making games. Then java and now c++

Id always learn some form of basic language there easy to get to grips with.

[shervieux]

If you are totally new to programming - I suggest going to Intersystems.com and downloading the free fully operational version of CACHE. Documentation does come with Cache. Then go to Amazon.com and get yourself

The Complete MUMPS : An Introduction and Reference Manual for the MUMPS Programming Language [FACSIMILE] (Paperback)
by John Lewkowicz

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This is a powerful language. and will only cost you the price of the book. It is as easy as Basic (I'm talking about the old 1980's programming language - not visual). Cache is still used heavily in banking and healthcare, and you can learn all the basics of programming in no time. The underlying programming language of Cache is Mumps. Mumps was one of the first languages I worked with in my Career (which started in 1986 and I am still using it today...) Mumps programmers can also earn a hefty salary, since most people are getting out of the language to persue alot of open source capabilities. It's too bad, Mumps is great for building quick applications. Cache allows hooks from other programming languages, such as visual basic, Java, Visual C (all flavors). Cache will also run on Open VMS, Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX - so you are not limited like Microsoft owned languages (Visual Anything.net) - Also your perls, java's and php were designed for the Unix / Linux environment so Windows programming is cludgy at best. most documentation for any opensource language will be on the Linux platform.

[Tyler1989]

Nothing is easy in programming but the starter langauge is Visual Basic probably and it's still powerfull stuff.

[duncan]

C++ or Java

[baronvongogo]

c++ I hate java its slow and the software to compile it in isnt very good.

[TheHeadFL]

I just adopted C# recently from C++. Its still probably best to learn C first, then C++, but I feel that C# could be much easier for beginners than C++ because of the way it handles primitive data types with much more ease.

[furtivefelon]

recently i had this infatuation with python, it works so much like lisp minus the macro system..

I felt the code written in python is much easier to understand than java/c++, java/c++ forces abstractions on to you..

what beginners want is a good scripting language that they can just throw together a couple of lines to get some result.. python/perl comes to mind, though, visual basic is good if prototype is all you aspires to..

try javascript too, it's rather fun

[TheHeadFL]

At this point, at least if youre using Visual Studio .NET, the difference between C#, C++, and VB seems to be merely syntax.

(Although C++ .NET has a little more power)