What is the easiest programming language to learn if i want to create windows based programs?

Question

What is the easiest programming language to learn if i want to create windows based programs?

Answer 1

Visual Basic, hands down.

Not only is it free, it gives you all the Microsoft support, has a fantastic free development environment (MS Visual Basic 2008 Express), can link to databases and do pretty much anything you could ever want, and there is a huge amount of examples and videos for free at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner...

You can hate on M$ but one thing they do very well is provide awesome developer tools.

Answer 2

If you can't spend the money on VB6, try going to:

http://www.thevbzone.com/vbcce.htm

and download VB5, its pretty much exactly the same as VB6.

Answer 3

Assuming you already know programming, VB6 would probably be easiest.  (Finding a legal copy to buy is probably harder, now, than learning it.)

If you don't already know programming (programming and a language aren't the same thing), there's no easy path - first you learn programming.  (Or you're like a 3-year-old "building contracot" playing in the sandbox, wonderwing why his walls keep falling down.)

VB.net (Microsoft has a not-full-but-still-very-usable version available for download for free) is a little more difficult to learn, but also pretty easy.

The C family - C, C++ and C#, are more difficult.