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I started learning Java a few months ago, and must say that it is very straightforward to use and can conquer most problems that one might be approached with. From Swing GUI's to network programming Java has it all, and a good book such as "Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days" is all you need to dive in.

at first you should learn c/c++ and than JAVA

Frankly C is the language everyone should learn first. Its a very unbiased language and obviously powerful when you think about system programming and stuff. Its a no frills language to start with. But as a begineer everyone should learn this language first cause most of the language constructs are basically based on C syntax. Those for loops, do while, if statements are never going to change. Also learning C will make other languages look easier or atleast easy to learn.

P.S. dont keep the pointers dangling *wink*

Well i voted "OTHER" because I think that as a FIRST language you should start learning PASCAL because it has the neccesary needs for you to learng loops and programming constructs !!!

I started with web languages, so after I learned delphi. Now I'm migrating to C/C++

I think that the best choices are DarkBasic or Delphi (Object Pascal)

look into asm for system knowledge. c for application, perl for application, and lisp because its pure

I'd either recommend ASM or Delphi.

ASM gives programmer the background knowledge on how computers really work by giving them direct access to the ram and processort etc.

Delphi is mainly just object Pascal. Pascal prorgamming enforces good coding habbits. (as in putting all function declarations in one spot, putting all variables in one spot etc.)

Probably afterwards, move on to the big dogs like C/C++ (don't even bother with VB)

fishpoo222 wrote:which programing language should i learn as my first? (I know some dark basic (www.darkbasic.com)(bit useless) )
if ive missed any good ones please say[/url]

Personally, I'd go with Visual Basic if I were you. It was my first real language (I still deny that I was taught Ada - I hated that!) and has proved quite useful to me.