What programming language is best to learn?

Question

I am currently learning Java at University... this is the main programming language being taught there at the moment.

What I want to know is, to get a good successful programmer/software engineer job... should I learn any other language(s)?

If so... what language(s) should I mainly focus on?

Not interested in LAMP (web design side) at the moment!).

Thinking of the Microsoft side... but there are so many to choose from!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Java is very good language to learn.

All the concept of the programming language u are learning must be clear and u must be able to apply logic for creating programa

Answer 2

Hi, JF

    most designers and programmers  will see them programming languages are the best. c++ is strong , java is strong

but, in my opinion :

Java is strong , easy , flexible  and near to our language

it distributed in web applications because it very light

really, in the future we will be need java in most our application

as u see , now java application in the most computer

finally, java programmer is very requested in present time . so I recommended you to still with your java learning in university but you must increase your skills from other resources like java tutorial from sun company

thanks

Answer 3

I would say phpbb as you can make millionaire websites like myspace and facebook with that. Its easy to learn if you put your mind to it as well.

Answer 4

It depends on what you need.

For Windows and Console applications, go with C#.

For games and networking, probably C/C++ is the best choice.

Java is similar to C#, and if you learn Java, you'll understand C# very quickly.

Answer 5

Java seems to be very popular in recent years. My personal favorite is Perl, it is quite versatile.

A warning about specializing in Microsoft products, you will pay for training and new software every time their marketing people decide it is time to stir things up. I got burned when they dropped QuickBASIC in favor of VisualBASIC which had no Macintosh version while I was programming for both PC and Mac platforms.

For the long term, in general you are better off learning open source tools because the community of users has a lot more control.

Answer 6

if u want to clear your concepts you need to learn C++

Answer 7

c is the biggest, so if you want to be profesional in programming, i think thats one that you would need