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Easy Program Language to Learn

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  • 15-07-2007 10:30pm
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    nori
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    I wanting to learn how to program and I was wondering if anybody knew of an easy program language to learn at first.

    I'm going to self teach myself but I was wanting to know what would be the best program language to start on would be.

    Any answers would be greatly appreciated


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    aidan_walsh
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055117373


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    Evil Phil
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    What exactly do you want to do nori? There's different languages for different tasks.

    For general programming I'd suggest Java or C#.


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    Conor108
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    Yeah I'd like to learn as well. Took a look at some books in PC world yesterday. Is Visual Basic for C++? What would be best to start with or what are most programs created with? The game making on Visual Basic looks cool but I imagine its ridiculously hard.


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    aidan_walsh
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    Conor108 wrote:
    Is Visual Basic for C++?
    Visual Basic and C++ are two different, totally unrelated languages.


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    aidanmcg
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    i tried starting off before learning c++ and tried to do it and spent a lot of time and then got fed up with it and didnt like it. I then done visual basic and really liked it and then got further into programming after that and can now program in java c++ php visual basic and others, so from my experience, i would recommend starting out with visual basic and take it from there.


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    Tom Dunne
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    aidanmcg wrote:
    so from my experience, i would recommend starting out with visual basic and take it from there.

    No, no, no!

    Visual Basic is for "quick and dirty" programming. You will potentially pick up bad habits if you learn programming through VB.

    Java or C++ to learn the fundamentals, then try other languages.


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    Ginger
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    tom dunne wrote:
    No, no, no!

    Visual Basic is for "quick and dirty" programming. You will potentially pick up bad habits if you learn programming through VB.

    Java or C++ to learn the fundamentals, then try other languages.

    I am a VB.NET/C# programmer andI would say that you should learn the basics throuh the likes of C++.. VB.NET is not as quick and dirty as its other brother tho


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    M450
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    I started off with C++, didnt have much choice in the matter!! I've just finished 2nd year engineering in tcd and really liked the computer programming end so I'm going with computer engineering for 3rd yr...

    so C++ is probably a good one to get you started!

    The book we used was:
    Problem Solving with C++: The Object of Programming
    by Walter Savitch, publisher Addison Wesley

    It starts you off very slowly and simple, I found it to be very good.


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    I started with that back in 97.. man that book has been around forever


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    M450
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭M450


    Ginger wrote:
    I started with that back in 97.. man that book has been around forever
    Well I have the fifth edition... could even be a later edition now!


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