What is the easyest programming language?
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 by David Lyncheski | Discussion: Personal Computing
I am trying to choose a language for making software on windows. What would you recomend?
David Lyncheski
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:18 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:18 PM
no, Something to make a program like a notepad replacement.
David Lyncheski
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:55 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:55 PM
really? Well is there a lang that makes normal windows programs?
Armbut
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:07 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:07 PM
I think HTML was the easiest for me to learn... 
But then again its not for Win32 programs.
But then again its not for Win32 programs.
Dark-Star
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:22 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:22 PM
.NET -- Simple enough to find plenty of documentation and powerful enough to do pretty much anything in the Windows Environment.
Zoomba
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:46 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:46 PM
HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language, which is very very different. It's manually defining display format, not actually coding and compiling an application.
.NET is good and it gives you the options of both VB and C#, so depending on how your brain works, you've got some choice. Personally, I'm OKish with C syntax code, but can't understand BASIC code to save my life. It just doesn't click in my head. However, Visual Basic is most often recommended as the best beginner language since it is more "plain english" to to speak.
.NET also lets you build both web applications (such as these fine forums you see here) as well as stand-alone Win32 apps. Lots of versatility.
.NET is good and it gives you the options of both VB and C#, so depending on how your brain works, you've got some choice. Personally, I'm OKish with C syntax code, but can't understand BASIC code to save my life. It just doesn't click in my head. However, Visual Basic is most often recommended as the best beginner language since it is more "plain english" to to speak.
.NET also lets you build both web applications (such as these fine forums you see here) as well as stand-alone Win32 apps. Lots of versatility.
Chris TH
Reply #12 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:30 PM
It's not usually the language (or more correctly the Syntax) that's the hard part to learn... it's usually getting your mind around all of the available functions i.e what they do, how to call them, which one to use and when etc, etc. This is in-turn dependant on the operating environment (in this case Windows).
The syntaxes between languages all have similar ways of achieving the same goal and I wouldn't say any one is 'easier' than another, just 'different'.
Reply #12 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:30 PM
| I am trying to choose a language for making software on windows. |
It's not usually the language (or more correctly the Syntax) that's the hard part to learn... it's usually getting your mind around all of the available functions i.e what they do, how to call them, which one to use and when etc, etc. This is in-turn dependant on the operating environment (in this case Windows).
The syntaxes between languages all have similar ways of achieving the same goal and I wouldn't say any one is 'easier' than another, just 'different'.
Mikes Daily Log
Reply #13 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:32 AM
Reply #13 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:32 AM
Visual Basic is pretty easy, if it's still around. That was the first language I learned.
CerebroJD
Reply #14 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:32 AM
Reply #14 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:32 AM
I would say that VB.net is a great way to learn. Its logical, and straightforward, and has a powerful function library in the .net architecture.
XX
Reply #15 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:40 AM
Reply #15 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:40 AM
I would say go with C. Large percent starts with C. Try to guess what VB compiler was compiled from.
Island Dog
Reply #16 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 4:43 AM
Reply #16 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 4:43 AM
tawoods
Reply #17 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 6:48 AM
Amen!!!! thanks for the .net I will look into that
Reply #17 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 6:48 AM
| but can't understand BASIC code to save my life |
Amen!!!! thanks for the .net I will look into that
thomassen
Reply #18 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:08 PM
Reply #18 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:08 PM
I'd suggest a .NET programming language. My preference is C#. I used to do Visual Basic before, but I've now changed to prefer curly backet type programming languages. (C, C#, Javascript, PHP)
GreenReaper
Reply #20 Thursday, November 2, 2006 3:25 PM
Reply #20 Thursday, November 2, 2006 3:25 PM
If you want to make Windows apps without too much hassle, choose .NET. C is necessary for some things, but it has things that get in the way when you're learning basic stuff, like memory allocation.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:14 PM