Beginner Programming Language

Question

What would be a good beginner programming language? I know of quite a few, but that's irrelevant--I only know their names. I want to learn a programming language that would be at least moderately useful (ideally not Javascript), and I hear that Python is fairly simple to learn but not very good for a newcomer to programming languages.

If you provide some good beginner resources for a good beginner language that I decide to at least try out, best answer for you.

(For the special people, HTML and CSS don't count as programming languages)

Answer 1

c#   "C Sharp"

download free version of visual studio from microsoft.  you will not go wrong with c#.

Answer 2

PHP and JAVA are great languages to learn and they are not of Microsoft

Answer 3

I'm really fond of this one, maybe you will be too.

Answer 4

To tell you the truth, you can start off at an type of programming language. It really all depends on what you want to do. To start off, I would learn C++ language if I were you. I did find that BASIC was the easies language that I ever learn, but BASIC is not uses in todays appilication, and neither is QBASIC. So your pretty much left to start with C++. Enjoy!

Learn C++ - http://www.learncpp.com/

Software needed for C++ - http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/...

I would either go with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 or Bloodshed Dev-C++

Answer 5

Pascal is language that was designed to be an educational tool.  There are free compilers available and lots of online resources.

Answer 6

I would consider learning C++ if your really intrested.

However, if you want to learn webprograming, php is definetly the way to go.

c++:

http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/

php and mysql:

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/DEfaULT.asP

http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/

Answer 7

Python is a great choice, extremely easy to get started with, multi-platform, incredibly useful in a real-world sense.  Come on in, the water's fine!

Of the links on the attached page, How To Think Like a Computer Scientist gets particularly high marks.