Programming brehs, is Visual Basic a good language to learn?

[Auger]

Only good if you plan on building windows based applications

 

[Golayitdown]

Python, Java, C++ for desktop apps

JavaScript and HTML for web based apps


Python is the one of the easier programming languages to learn and will take you a long way.

 

[Londilon]

http://lifehacker.com/which-programming-language-should-i-learn-first-1477153665

 

[unit321]

I want to get into programming and someone recommended Visual Basic to start out with...I have a little experience with VB but it was a few years ago. I remember a little bit about it but i never really went in depth.
Is it a good idea to learn it further? Or should i go with another language? Thanks in advance brehs

Skip it.
You want to get into a programming language where the software is free. Always free.
Learn to program in Java. Java is free.
Also, other Apache programs are free like ant or maven, those are build/compilation tools.
Unix shell languages are free, csh, bsh, bash.
Perl is free, Perl is a scripting language.

Visual Basic is not free and whatever Microsoft package you need to get, it isn't going to be free unless someone is unloading a cheap or free version of 5.0 or 4.0 and that's trash anyway.

 

[BrandonBanks]

It depends on what you are learning it for. They have different purposes

Good thread, lot of good advice and info in here

 

[BrandonBanks]

definitely start as soon as possible, you'll look back and be amazed at how far you've come. It's very fulfilling to build something out that people can actually use.

Yep

 

[BasketCase]

python

 

[Apollo Creed]

I did VB/asp.net in College it was fun thought me the fundamentals to programming. I`m playing with python now and its pretty easy and fun, I havent gotten to advance concepts though. JavaScript is cool too but when you get to the advance stuff IT may be confusing as hell to someone who is new to programming in general. I`d say do Python first.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

I want to get into programming and someone recommended Visual Basic to start out with...I have a little experience with VB but it was a few years ago. I remember a little bit about it but i never really went in depth.

Is it a good idea to learn it further? Or should i go with another language? Thanks in advance brehs

VB

 

[Marci-Senpai]

subs for later

 

[BrandonBanks]

There's even YouTube tutorials and free apps on Google Play. It's out there breh, go ahead and start asap. You'll be glad u did. I took programming classes at a CC (and kept the books I bought from there) and also used stuff I found online to help me.

 

[kevm3]

The only way I'd recommend you spending time on visual basic is if you are working with excel spreadsheets and you are trying to automate them. Otherwise, spend time learning something like Ruby, Python, Javascript, Java or C#. Which one of those languages you choose to learn depends on what you want to do. Do you want to build web pages? Program general purpose applications? What exactly? Python is typically recommended for beginners. Javascript is a great one to learn since it's something you won't be able to avoid for long if you're doing any web programming.

 

[Mastamimd]

JavaScript...if you can get a grasp on C or C++ first which isn't easy you can get a grasp on pretty much anything. At least it did for me.

 

[Jahmal]

COBOL

 

[Audemar]

Solid information posted so far. You can also try Coursera if you prefer a structure that is similar to that of a college course. They're removing courses due to a platform change, but you can still find them elsewhere.