Your Opinion On The Best Language For Beginners

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Poll: Your Opinion On The Best Language For Beginners (170 member(s) have cast votes)

Best language for beginners?

  1. C++ (21 votes [12.35%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.35%

  2. C (18 votes [10.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.59%

  3. Pascal (2 votes [1.18%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.18%

  4. Java (23 votes [13.53%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.53%

  5. VB (15 votes [8.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.82%

  6. C# (36 votes [21.18%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.18%

  7. HTML (7 votes [4.12%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.12%

  8. Python (35 votes [20.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.59%

  9. Assembly (3 votes [1.76%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.76%

  10. Other (10 votes [5.88%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.88%

Language you started out with?

  1. C (22 votes [12.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.94%

  2. C++ (31 votes [18.24%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.24%

  3. Pascal (2 votes [1.18%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.18%

  4. Java (17 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  5. VB (28 votes [16.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.47%

  6. C# (14 votes [8.24%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.24%

  7. HTML (8 votes [4.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.71%

  8. Python (5 votes [2.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.94%

  9. Assembly (5 votes [2.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.94%

  10. DOS (1 votes [0.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.59%

  11. HTML (4 votes [2.35%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.35%

  12. PHP (4 votes [2.35%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.35%

  13. Qbasic (14 votes [8.24%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.24%

  14. COBOL (1 votes [0.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.59%

  15. Fortran (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  16. Delphi (1 votes [0.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.59%

  17. Other (13 votes [7.65%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.65%

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#136 NecroWinter  Icon User is offline

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Re: Your Opinion On The Best Language For Beginners

Posted 28 May 2012 - 04:38 PM

any major language is fine for a beginner.

i started with vb though
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Re: Your Opinion On The Best Language For Beginners

Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:34 PM

I think it's good to start with something like Java or C#. Mid-level languages with C-like syntax make learning more challenging than very high level languages like Python, but the challenge is mostly a result of learning the object-oriented paradigm on top of basic program control structures.
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Re: Your Opinion On The Best Language For Beginners

Posted 21 September 2012 - 12:57 PM

I actually started out with Spectrum BASIC back in the late 80s, before moving on to a little html design. It wasn't though till I got into programming and learned hexidecimal programming of microprocessors and assembly, I gained a true appreciation of the higher languages.

Professionally I started out with C and C++, went on to Java, Python, Perl and a few others and currently work with C#, T-SQL and jQuery. C# does make a really nice beginners language though in my opinion. Python and Java aren't too bad either. C++ is pretty good for procedural language programming, but I never cared for its use in OOP.
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