Hi i want to ask everyone in your own opinion what would be the easy and best programming language to start from 0, i have no programming knowledge at all, i tell you everything with this: I see Hello World's code in all the languages and i don't understand a word. Please help me

P.S. Pages of where can i study it in the internet would be useful (you don't have to post them if you do not want to)
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I would recommend Python 3 as a programming language to give a shot.
I find it very different from most programming languages, since most of them share a very C like syntax (eg C#, Java, etc).
This programming language's syntax is designed to be more intuitive and friendlier than C syntax.
For example, I'll show you the Jap77 decompression code (Overlay decompression):
Python version
C# version (scroll down to 'Jap77 (backwards LZ77 variant')

They are not the best examples, but they will give you some idea on how they look.

Python can do very neat stuff, just like .Net can (Reggie, Blender's UI, ClassID Tool, Calibre, and many others)

Also, Python is natively cross-platform, unlike .Net (Visual Basic, C#, J#, F$, etc) which is made for Microsoft Windows only, and has many problems on other OSes (basically they use Mono).
Though when you do improve and want to design programs that do computationally expensive operations, you shouldn't use .Net or Python for this, but learn C/C++ to make it.

EDIT: Visit http://docs.python.org/py3k/ for documentation, and http://python.org/ for downloads.

I'll go differently and say it would be PHP. Ok, it sucks as language (don't get me wrong, I think that Perl, Python, C and other programming languages are better), but it's simpler compared to C (less low-level), Perl (less concepts) or C# (no type declarations).

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Hmm i dunno what should i pick, 2 people recommend me Python and 2 others Visual Basic .Net . Can somebody else vote please?

P.S. xfix well but i want to create programs and i think (i might be wrong), PHP is web programming not to make applications
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Isn't web programming also programming? This board is also a program (obviously).

I'd say, go for Python if you want to make applications.
PHP can also be used for applications. But please don't do that.

ALso, don't let the C# lovers let you get locked in to Microsoft-specific things.

Edit: inb4 people get mad

If you plan to develop for multiple platforms, the answer should be very clear.


Yeah it is. I think that "web programming" in  STORMENT's eyes is creating software for a web server.

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Wow Microsoft has a lot of things that I never knew existed.

I find the Python 3 tutorial really nice and easy for new programmers to learn Python.

Wow. I really miss the "{" and "}" in Python.
So I will remain programming in C-like programming languages.

But actually, Python is nice language. If you will get used to that...

Yeah well some people don't like the Python syntax a lot. It's not very strict. But I don't mind it at all.

Ok i guess i'm going to start with Visual Basic .NET. Do you think this will work?

P.S. Thank you very much for taking you time answering this thread
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It'll probably be best to learn the programming language from the developer. In this case, it's Microsoft, so you probably want to lookup a Microsoft tutorial for the most up-to-date info.

Ok thank you, but those tutorials made by somebody else, do they work?
I was thinking and i'm going to look both, Python and Visual Basic .NET to see which one looks easier to understand for me
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Visual Basic is shit. If you want to go with .NET you should go with C# which is thesame, but less shit.
But .NET is shit anyways.

Making GUIs in Python is not that difficult either. Look at PySide/PyQt.