I need a good first real programming language to learn for making good real programs?

Question

iam really good with computers form overall, but i dont know that much about programming, i have a very keen background with visual basic, so give me a good real start people

Answer 1

what kind of programs are you looking at?  web based then look at Flash and Java.  Stand alone programs I would say look into C++.

Answer 2

Don't most people still usually start with Basic?

Answer 3

Frankly if you can read and write you should choose a real language to program in. C++ is the language that the windows operating system is written in and while allot of programmers say it's to hard or complex that is just not true. C++ is the superior programming language and the time spent learning it will be well rewarded in the power you can access. By learning C programming you can master the control of any computer device from embedded processors to super computers. Don't buy the hype of languages like visual basic and java, be a pro and learn the most powerful programming language around..  Don't forget also that a HUGE amount of open source software, on line documentation and help is available for C/C++ in fact if you go to source forge you will see that C/C++ is used in more projects than any other language.

Answer 4

Try Turbo Pascal :)

Answer 5

For career advancement and good financial gain learn Visual Studio .NET and somewhat related Visual Basic or if you will make a major career commitment learn Visual C#

For a less demanding and very usable language try HTML and its other various HTML based younger stronger cousins XAML XML and begin also to gain an understanding of the Visual Studio .NET and .NET 2.0 and Share-Point method of web development. Macromedia Flash and other software development skills will help too.

If you like to chew off your fingers in frustration as you learn, or are very determined and committed to Java, yes learn Java and other of the Sun Java development skills.   Get started with your own web development using free or free-to try tools including Macromedia Dreamweaver.  You could take a community college course in any area Sun Java or Microsoft or other topic and get the software you need at a great discount from retail.

Answer 6

It depends on what applications you want to develop. I would suggest Python as it is fairly easy to learn.

Answer 7

Depending on your desired path, I would get involved with learning Java or PHP if you are not a student.  If you are a student I would also consider .NET (either VB.NET or preferably C# because this is slightly more similar syntactically to Java and PHP for learning down the road) because using the DreamSpark program available from Microsoft you can get ALL of the tools you would ever need to learn .NET and set up your own server.  This is worth MUCHO dollars if you had to purchase it.  Java and PHP are free environments and will run on any platform (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.) and honestly the job market and pros and cons for all 3 languages (.NET, Java, PHP) are all pretty even.

Answer 8

I heard COBOL is making a comeback :P

Answer 9

Python - free, ubiquitous, object oriented, and easy to learn.

Answer 10

java script