whats the most useful programming language to learn?

Question

iv just become interested in learning programs due to seeing an awesome film. i dont know exactly what i want to do with programming knowledge but i know its usefull, interesting, and has unlimited potential. im just looking for a good way to start right now and know very little about syntacts and even less about symantics. right now im looking at : "C" , "prolog" and "ML". as they come off as being the most basic yet important as they are the foundation for most new systems out there. so please help me step my foot into the digital world. thank you.

ps. please respond asap, i work two jobs and open AND close so im short on time.

once again thank you.

-Jeff

Answer 1

There is so much out there that it’s difficult to say what is best or the most useful… something that is easy and free is best place to start… An understanding of OOP (Object-oriented programming) is essential too BUT you pick that up as you learn



A quick and rewarding task is a ‘Hello World’ program…

As an example of Visual Basic Script (VBS) program :: Open notepad and enter the following..



MsgBox "Hello World"



Now save it (anywhere will do) as.... HelloWorld.vbs

Locate the file (HelloWorld.vbs that you just created) and double click it… you should see a message box pop up with ‘Hello World’ in it…. That’s your first program and demonstrates how you can write code without any complicated or expensive software… (VBS is akin to VB6 which in its day was as widely used as C, C++ and Java)



W3Schools is a good resource for basic tutorials, here is a link to the VBS tutorial

http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/



Once you have mastered VBS you can try Java Script which is similar (text based) to VBS… for languages like C and C# (C-Sharp) et al, you need to use a compiler (or their IDE interfaces ie. Visual Studio for C#, VB.NET, C++, F# etc) to get code to work, is slightly more complicated….

Answer 2

Really you have to be looking at C# (called C sharp), ".NET" (dot net) or Java.

C won't really be much use unless you go into professional programming and prolog I thought died out in the 70s when I died out :-)

Answer 3

Java is the most used programming language out there and it pays you a lot. Also, C# is very similar to java and is easier in my opinion

Answer 4

I believe the most useful language is which ever one you adapt to more. programmers begin at Java cpp or even basic. Introduce yourself try codepedia.com read the basic introduction of the languages see which you adapt to more