Best to learn programming language

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Can someone tell me what programming language is best to learn this days for web and non-web, considering i have little knowledge in C,C#,java, UI in C# and java, i am also wondering witch language will be the best in the future?

Thanks,
Gabriel

Posted 7-Jul-11 12:24pm

Gabriel Sas

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Solution 1

No one can really claim which language would be best in future.You can see a flurry of answers on this post with difference of opinion.

Its like asking which type Girl you want to choose for marriage.(If someone tells and forces you to choose one its equivalent to arranged marriage and other counterpart is love marriage).

IMHO,you should choose a programming language from your own research and love.
and end of day you should enjoy programming it. You would excel!

thanks.

Posted 7-Jul-11 12:33pm

harish85

Updated 7-Jul-11 12:39pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 18:41pm

Hard to predict -- I'm totally with you, so my 5 just for that.

As to the girl -- I strongly disagree. :-)
Please see my answer.
--SA

harish85 7-Jul-11 19:27pm

Thanks SA. yes, comparison I meant was for a independent selection on researched ideas/views. That would get complicated in lot of other matters :-).
Most important thing is getting the essence of programming as you said which is driven by the passion shown to that language.
Thanks!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 21:43pm

So true. Thank you for this discussion.
--SA

Solution 4

Anything you feel comforatable with, and that is supported and which will allow you to be employed.

C# is absolutely fine.

Posted 7-Jul-11 13:03pm

Dalek Dave

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Espen Harlinn 7-Jul-11 19:18pm

Good points, Dalek

Solution 5

Also I want to vote for C#

Posted 8-Jul-11 17:59pm

thatraja

Solution 6

If you are a college grad, you can probably start learning both and then pick up one of the two based on how you feel comfortable with them.

Posted 8-Jul-11 18:22pm

Abhinav S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-07T12:39:00

Solution 2

According to harish85,

"It's like asking which type girl you want to choose for marriage."

I strongly disagree. A computer language is easier to get rid of. For this purpose, always learn few of them.

You need to learn programming, not particular languages. If you understand programming really well, learning of another language should not be a problem. Of course, to get there you need to learn couple of languages and get good experience programming using them.

Avoid strong pre-occupation with one particular language — it would limit your thinking. I notices C++-only developers suffer from this problems the most, because many consider themselves superior only due to this fact. (Of course I don't even take into consideration VB or PHP people, just to avoid off-topic discussion — this is supposed to be a programming forum :-).)

—SA

Posted 7-Jul-11 12:39pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 7-Jul-11 12:46pm

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Gabriel Sas 7-Jul-11 18:45pm

i know what you are saying for example first i learned java and when i was curios what is C# about it was very easy to learn,so in your opinion what should i learn next?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 18:51pm

First, I just updated the text of my post, so you probably did not see it in full. Secondly, I would prefer to avoid is. There are few cases when one-to-one comparison of languages is possible; and such cases are only if one language is not worth of paying attention at all (such as VB).

I would recommend to go to either C++, C++/CLI or one of functional languages. F# would go well after C#. Again, this is just the idea, not for serious assessment. It's all you decision. Read overview chapter for several languages to get an idea. You can even start with Wikepedia; they have good classification and description of languages, not I do not agree with 100% of material.

--SA

Espen Harlinn 7-Jul-11 18:48pm

Good points, my 5 - learn assembly, c/c++, delphi, c# and java - you'll turn out a decent developer.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 18:55pm

Thank you, Espen.
I would add: one should learn Assembly Language not to perfect the code or get better access to things (but this too when it comes to extreme performance or extreme kernel-level tricks), but -- to really understand how processor and memory work together -- very important for all programmers (and too many do not have essential idea).

--SA

Gabriel Sas 7-Jul-11 19:07pm

i got the ideea now, to be good in different languages, to be open minded, because some solution are made easily in one language and harder in other ones.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 19:17pm

This is not the only reason....
Will you accept the answer formally then (green button)?
You can accept more then one -- I think you got other good ideas.
Thank you.
--SA

TRK3 7-Jul-11 19:28pm

C++ programmers are superior. :^)

Actually, SA is right -- you should learn several and not get to strongly pre-occupied with only one. (My 5.)

I would recommend that one of the languages you learn be C or C++ so that you understand what a pointer is and the difference between stack and heap and all that other stuff that is hidden from you in a garbage collected language. And yes, assembly language too.

It really helps to understand that stuff. Most of the time you might be able to get away with not knowing it, but when you run into a situation where you care about memory or performance (todays mobile platforms for example) it makes a difference to really understand that.

Christian Graus 7-Jul-11 20:29pm

You're saying wives are not easy to get rid of ? :P

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 21:39pm

More or less uneasy, by my educated guess. Implementation-dependent.
--SA

fjdiewornncalwe 7-Jul-11 20:40pm

If for no other reason than "A computer language is easier to get rid of" you must have a 5 for this one.. :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 21:42pm

Thank you, Marcus, but I think my advice also worth to considered... :-)
--SA

Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-07T12:42:00

Solution 3

Once upon a time we, as in architects and developers, would have been the right people to answer this question. Not that we necessarily would have agreed, but we would have tried to argue in terms of technical merits.

These days – technology is preached by evangelists, even their job title says so – and nobody’s laughing.

I’ll advice you to learn javascript, not because it’s a very good language, but a thousand lines of javascript will get you more credit, than a million lines in any other language – even if all it does is slide colored squares around the screen.

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 7-Jul-11 12:42pm

Espen Harlinn

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Gabriel Sas 7-Jul-11 18:47pm

any opinions about python?

Espen Harlinn 7-Jul-11 18:58pm

Python, perl and ruby - while great scripting languages doesn't live in the browser. If you want to learn a real programming language - go for c++ and target games development, but that's going to be really, really hard work - and the competition is quite fierce - you’ll have fun though.

Javascript is the visual basic of the future – three buttons and a grid – will probably net you $5000 - if you have the right attitude

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 18:53pm

Well, a practical idea. My 5. (I cannot get to learning it better than I know it now though -- too boring :-))

I just updated my solution -- please take a look.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 7-Jul-11 19:14pm

One of the reasons c++ developers feel superier may have someting to do with this: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/graph/doc/push_relabel_max_flow.html
or this:
http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/assassins-creed-1/experience/

Getting there requires a lot of hard work though

while stuff like http://jquery.com/ - while good, can't be said to require the same level of development expertice - good marketing though :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jul-11 21:53pm

I actually meant the following: decent people never feel superior based on affiliation with some group, developers using certain language, ethnic group, subculture, etc. This is called snobbery and has no real value, but some illusory value. A decent person understand that only personal achievements of each individual really matters. There is a big part of C++ programmers who are attracted just by the rumors and idea to become "cool" just by affiliation with the group of people who consider themselves "true". In real life people motivated like that are more united by the snobbish attitudes and lack of really deep understanding of things.

I suspect that during your Object Pascal and Delphi work you got familiar with such phenomenon.
--SA