Programm languages. need some advice

[wazofski]

I normally use vb 2005, but I want to learn some other languages too. Shall I learn C++? And what language is handy that many programms use?

[Xav]

I learnt C# after VB, as it uses the same objects, with just a different syntax. C++ is more complex, but the ultimate language. And what about web development?

[chili5]

Didn't see this topic, did you make this twice??

Anyways, I would learn C# since use use VB learning c# should be easy because it's almost the same and c++ is one of the best languages.

If your into web development, PHP and JavaScript.

[Xav]

But not forgetting to learn (X)HTML first, as you can't really do much in PHP and JavaScript without it!

Once you've learnt C#, you can give C++ a try, as C# is sort of the missing link between VB and C++ - it shares the same objects as C#, but a similar syntax to C++.

[chili5]

Well yeah learn XHTML then get into CSS and JavaScript.

And javascript has similar syntax to c# i believe so learning one language makes a lot of other languages a lot easier to learn.

[zeroradius]

I agree with what the others say. C# is verry straight forward and easy to learn ( I don't know how close to VB it is as i refuse to even look at anything done in VB ) then C++ is much better but you can get your self into a big sticky situation if not careful. As for web (obviously HTML or some other shell language for layout) but i hounastly skiped Javascript and went straight to PHP and MySQL ( though my teacher forced me to do JS once so I wrote a popup that spawnd 80 other popups then when he tried to exit the page it spawned 80 more. Good thing he liked me or that could have been a dumb move)

[chili5]

I kind of regret even bothering to look at something in VB when I figured out that C# is the almost same thing.

I'm kind of doing something stupid trying to learn like 4 languages at once, getting there on HTML and CSS but not really on PHP and C++ which I'm also trying to learn LOL

[zeroradius]

lol, I do that all the time. Curently trying Java, Perl, and C++ with Direct X - fun fun

[chili5]

Oh I forgot about Java i'm trying that also, and I've played with Python also.

If I could get ASP to work on my computer, I would play with that also. I like to know about lots of different languages.

[Xav]

I feel the same - I'm trying to learn German and French at current...