New to programming

[Morglisn]

Hey guys. My background has been mostly in electronics and CAD, and a smattering of assembly language.

I've recently become more interested in programming, and wanted your opinions on the best starting point. I'm looking at both Visual Basic (which I've created a few simple programs with) and Visual C, which I've had no experience with whatsoever.

What's the best learning path, guys? Any advice at all would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[dik]

Each programmer has his personal preference...

In my case, I use Delphi. My programming is casual (sort of a sick hobby) Delphi has the ease of VB with nearly the power of C... I quit using VB about 5 years ago, or so.

Commercially, I think there is a greater demand for VB or C...

 

[kidzaboyz]

Hi..
Actually, there's no programming language plays the one man show. Choosing a programming language depends on What do U want to do with it.. If writing applications for the internet then U get Java, If it's for Operating Systems then U get C, For Artificial Intelligence stuff, U get Lisp, Prolog, Python. Oracle, SQL for Database. See, each language has a purpose. C and C++ are considered as General purpose languages, if U are not yet sure about what are U going to do with it, then get C++, I believe that C++ is the most powerful general purposes language. My advice is "Learn a serious programming language" like C, C++, Java. It's my own beliefs and Good luck with whatever U pick.

 

[nbucska]

I use Fortran,"C" and assy but I find the old GWBASIC
much easier to learn and faster to write/debug and prefer it for programs less than a few hundred statements.

A few tasks actually performed in this range:
a.) Simulations of 1.)digital spin control 2.) 48 station
temp.control. 3.) Natural selection.
b.) Control: realtime control of machining station for
2 -plain balancing rotors
c.) Billing and bookkeeping software
d.) Hundreds of ad hoc text processing SW.


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