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[dcimonline]

Hey everyone,

After sitting around my house for a week doing close to nothing, I decided to take up programming as a hobby to keep myself busy while not in college or working. I have a small amount of experience with BASIC from an old college class and have messed with a few languages here and there to have somewhat of an understanding of how they work. I have been trying to decide which language I should dive into first and have come up blank. Any advice?

[abzero]

Depends, what would you like to do with your programming?

C# will allow you to create window's applications quickly; and get quick results and programs you may use alot. (Visual C# express is free btw)
Java will allow you to be able to program cross platform, also has an ok Gui, but it not as easy to use. (Get Eclipse or Netbeans, also free)

If you want to create more web based applications then looking at those technologies would be better.

Once you know how to program the language isn't that big of a deal, as many people know more than one. So choose which ever looks interesting to you and fits what you want to do first.

[dcimonline]

Since making applications sounds fun I will probably start of using C#. I might get into web applications in the future or something but I think I will have more fun just creating windows applications to start.

[WingedPanther]

It also depends on the OS you want to work with. .NET is mostly for Windows (although you can write Mono compliant code).