Easiest app programming language?

Spyhop · 4 Feb 2009 at 20:17

C#'s a brilliant language - pleasure to use.

If you don't mind the Windows centric nature, it's a no-brainer.

metalmackey · 4 Feb 2009 at 23:23

I like C#

IMO its better than Delphi and VS C# 2008 Express is free so if ya dont like it, no loss.

kkelly · 5 Feb 2009 at 19:16

Hi guys,

I have been using VB for years VBA - VB6 - VB.Net nothing major really just small script here do you think i could pick up C# easily?

~J~ · 5 Feb 2009 at 20:41

kkelly said:
Hi guys,

I have been using VB for years VBA - VB6 - VB.Net nothing major really just small script here do you think i could pick up C# easily?

Half a day for the basics, a full day to get to a stage where you feel you can probably start converting or start a new project in the language.

Goksly · 5 Feb 2009 at 22:37

~J~ said:
Half a day for the basics, a full day to get to a stage where you feel you can probably start converting or start a new project in the language.

Er I'd say more than that - vb6 etc isn't even OO.

Dj_Jestar · 5 Feb 2009 at 23:10

.NET is.

~J~ · 6 Feb 2009 at 00:03

Goksly said:
Er I'd say more than that - vb6 etc isn't even OO.

Dj_Jestar said:
.NET is.

Thank you DJ.

UK|AL · 6 Feb 2009 at 00:29

His saying VB6 does not have oo, but .Net has oo.

Thus it's going to take longer to learn VB.NET correctly.

Goksly · 6 Feb 2009 at 12:39

Yeah. I'm well aware of the vast underlying difference between vba/vb6 and vb.net.

Darg · 6 Feb 2009 at 12:50

Another vote for C# here. I started off with Java back in my first college and wrote an app without a fullscreen GUI made entirely of my own components. Let me tell you it's not as fun as it sounds. Half my time was spent just getting the GUI to work the way I wanted it to.

C# + window forms makes it so easy comparatively. Design view to set up how you want your app to look then just program in the background. Easy as anything.

If you want a bit of fun then look into C# and XNA as well. It's never been easier to make your own games

Welshy · 6 Feb 2009 at 12:53

I'll agree with the vast majority that C#/VB.NET are probably the easiest languages to pick up, especially when using Visual Studio. You can get away with writing minimal code if you use the Windows Forms aspects of the IDE, but then again you can write as much back-end code as you'd like.

Stretch · 6 Feb 2009 at 13:56

If you’re building apps for XP machines look no further than C#. There's just no point messaging around with anything else, unless you're creating something specialist.

roid · 6 Feb 2009 at 14:06

c# or Delphi. Use both at work, and each has pros and cons.

I find Delphi is faster due to it being native as opposed to interpreted,but for most tasks on a modern PC your probably wouldn't notice.

Darg · 6 Feb 2009 at 16:49

roid said:
I find Delphi is faster due to it being native as opposed to interpreted,but for most tasks on a modern PC your probably wouldn't notice.

These days anything .NET is interpreted now. Even C++. It really doesn't make much difference in terms of speed anymore. The mid-level parser takes very little resources and time.

Lightnix · 6 Feb 2009 at 18:18

To be pedantic, .NET code is JIT compiled into native code just before it's run. It's faster than a true scripting language like Perl, for instance, but a bit slower than an optimised native language like C++.

UK|AL · 6 Feb 2009 at 18:32

Darg said:
These days anything .NET is interpreted now. Even C++. It really doesn't make much difference in terms of speed anymore. The mid-level parser takes very little resources and time.

Only manged C++ uses .net.

Not many people use managed c++.

Energize · 6 Feb 2009 at 20:14

If you learn Java you can easily use JSP later if you want to do web stuff, which is arguably the best server side scripting language.

kkelly · 6 Feb 2009 at 21:39

Hi guys

,

Been playing with it today at work, mainly trying to convert a wee app i wrote in vb.net

. It is quite different but I am going to give it another try on sunday !

Morthoseth · 10 Feb 2009 at 13:24

So it is worth learning Delphi? Was something i wanted to do for some odd reason a while ago but seeing as it hardly ever gets mentioned i didnt bother. Perhaps i should give it another look!

SKILL · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:12

Lightnix said:
To be pedantic, .NET code is JIT compiled into native code just before it's run. It's faster than a true scripting language like Perl, for instance, but a bit slower than an optimised native language like C++.

Ah, but nowadays 'true scripting languages' have caching interpreters, which is basically what the 'JIT Compiler' is, so the difference isn't as big as if perl et al had the classic definition of interpreters, eg programs that took one line at a time and discarded it after execution.

But ignoring pedantic stuff, C# is quite good for quick GUI based windows apps. I prefer C/C++ as a language, but doing GUI stuff in those is far more time/effort than C# so it all depends on your preferences/priorities.

I would say ignore Java though, ok it's good if you want portability (although not perfect, there are features/library calls that work slightly differently across os's, although that's very rare), but it's (imo) not a very nice language to program in, and with gui's it's not really any better than doing one in C/C++