Newbie Language Poll

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If anyone wants any choices added, reply!

[iago]

VB.

[Riddle]

Instead of VB.

[j0k3r]

lol@iago

I'd say to go with Java, most schools in Ontario offer that as a grade12 programming course, and trust me being ahead in your class is lots of fun. The only problem I can see (what I'm having) is understand how everything is put together and how it's supposed to run (.class .java .html, how they all link together in a project).

Java also forces you to learn OOP concepts.

[hismajesty]

QBasic.

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Added JavaScript...BUT DON'T VOTE FOR IT!

[Hitmen]

JavaScript.

[Mitosis]

C++ even though Im a newbie.

[iago]

VB.

[Dark-Feanor]

Java or C#

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Mitosis your votes don't count.

[muert0]

Down here in louisiana the only programming class they teach is qbasic.
Did you put that on there seriously. Is there anything worthwhile that can be done with Qbasic?

[iago]

QBasic and Visual Basic have the exact same syntax.  Years ago, I read books on QBasic (that was my first language), then I ended up with a VB compiler and was able to figure out VB with no books or no internet or anything.  It's a really easy transition.

[wut]

How about Perl?  Comes with most UNIX-based systems, although you can get it on windows IIRC (ActivePerl?).  It has it's own package manager and a lot of great modules, from things like mod_perl on apache to xmms-perl (I wrote an MP3 script for my IRC client with this :p).  Very powerful for text processing (you'll never need to learn sed/awk) but also supports TCP/IP networking.  And albeit there is no Perl forum here, you're likely to get help if you connect to irc.linux.org (freenode) and join #perl.

[iago]

I don't think Perl would make a very good starting language.  It's better to start with C and move onto Perl, in my opinion.