[edwardcyh]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Visual basic is cake to learn, but I am not sure learning the easiest first is best. Some of the easy ones teach you very bad programming habits.

I think Visual basic is probably one of the most useful because unfortunately Micro$oft continues to dominate the PC Operating System and Office Productivity Suite market. Understanding VB would let you manipulate various aspects of Micro$oft products, like office for starters.

I totally agree with the bad habits part though.

I personally would suggest starting with C++. If you want to learn it right, like actually studying data structure and flow, go to a community college and take some classes on it. I have met so many "programmers" who write codes from "trial and error" without understanding basic loops.

Like:
draw line
draw line
draw line
draw line
draw line

Is equivalent to:
A "loop" with count =5 and action=draw line

"Gee... I don't need loops to produce the same results..."
::: SMACK ::: :devious: