What is a good programing language to dabble in ?

Dark_Angel

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Hey,

I thought I may try my hand at a little programing, but really a little unsure of where to start.

C, C++, Visual Basic ? I don't want to do it for a living, just have some fun coding my own little programs to kind of get a handle on how things work.

If anyone has any advice or ideas, I would appreciate it a lot :D
 
C#; much better than C++ etc to dabble with, as with Winforms you can create an up pretty quickly (WYSIWYG interface etc)
 
C# is probably your best bet if you want to see results quickly and you don't mind being bound to Windows.

If you want to do web programming then PHP or Ruby would probably work well.
 
The other advantage of doing a .NET language like C# is that you get one of the best IDEs on the market (albeit a slightly lighter-weight version) for free :cool:
 
I'd recommend VB.net, I find the syntax slightly easier to get to grips with than C#. Either would be good, though.
 
C#, I think it's a good starting place. It is similar to Java, C et all.

Read a good book on it aimed at beginners, if you just dive in you will find it overwhelming and you won't have the proper understanding of how it works.
 
I would suggest php if you want to implement web stuff. Get yourself a cheap hosting account and you'll be away. The best thing about php for learning is that it is a simple sequential style so it's easy to follow, plus there are loads of free scripts and there are lots of people that will help you out online.

I started out with VB.net, but I have switched to php for productivity reasons. VB.net and microsoft languages might be more elegant, but they can't beat php for speed of development IMO (at least when your style is finding ready made scripts!!!).

Rgds
 
Eriedor said:
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To be honest, if you just want to dabble then Delphi aint that bad :o

I'd probably go the c# route, purely because if you get the development "bug" then you use what you've learnt to build pretty much anything.

And there's no requirement to grow a beard and wear brown corduroy trousers like there is with some languages :p

Oh, and don't listen to people who tell you cut+pasting is a coding style ;) I had a friend at college that took the code for an IRC bot i'd recently written.. changed my name at the top and told me he'd written one too :D
 
My #1 nark with VB.NET/C# is the .NET framework.

If you dare release anything, I guarantee you will spend the rest of the year telling people to install the .NET framework.
 
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