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Which programming language is best for beginners?

  • I've had no programming experience at all, except some Wolfram Mathematica, and I'm interested in programming, so I'm planning to take either an Intro to C language or an Intro to Visual Basic class at my local community college, and I was wondering which one would be easier to learn? and which one would be easier to build upon and be easier to learn new languages? Also, how easy is it to pick up Python and which language can build upon it, if possible?

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    Between C and Visual Basic, Visual Basic is much easier for beginners. C is more applicable and easier to build on, but I still recommend Visual Basic. Python is the absolute best first language to learn. It is easy to learn, easy to build off of into java and C++, and surprisingly applicable.

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C is useful for building device drivers and other operating system functions. If you want to build applications that people use, you'll want to learn higher level languages. Start with something like Basic or Pascal. From there you can move on to languages like java. And if you really want to do some low level stuff (OS and drivers) then you can learn C. The sky is the limit.

Greg

Visual Basic is easiest to learn. C++ (there are a lot of C variants) is the standard for industrial programming. I'm not familiar with Python. If you're new to programming take Visual Basic. With VB you can get interesting-looking results with very little effort. If you wish to make a career of programming you can learn C later.

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Python. It's a fairly easy but still useful OOP language, the concepts and syntax of which applies to most high level languages commonly used today (Java, C++, C#, etc) Here's a link to a playlist of videos from thenewboston on Python programming. He's a great guy and his tutorials are really good: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA1FEF17E1E5C0DA&feature=plcp

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