metroidroxs2

Basically, I'd just like to hear some ideas on what language I should try to learn next. I've taken a class in Java, but haven't done much with it lately so I thought that learning a different language might keep me from getting rusty (and I'm running out of things to do lately). If anyone knows a good site/tutorial feel free to include that with your suggestion. Thanks

mothergoose729

VB is pretty easy. If you get the basics like loops, selection, and case what not.

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sailerboy

C++ is the most practical, and easiest to learn other languages later. C++ is also similar (but more powerful) to java

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I was I. The same boat as you... Took java and never used it much. Then I got an internship at a small programming company and had to learn VB on the fly. It's easy to use and pretty powerful. You can them get into some .Net stuff and make some neat web pages. I built a chat page for the website in my sig using VB. PM me if you wanna see it, but my point is it's easy enough to use that I felt very comfortable with it after about 2 months of using it.

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Ikrin

Currently, the most prevalent languages are Java and C#. There is of course, .NET, as well as C++, but I would say the former might be more useful in helping you to easily adapt to the syntax of other languages. You could try other Object Oriented Languages like Ruby on Rails or Python. If you need any Java practice, you could go to www.javabat.com.

metroidroxs2

I think I'll take a look at all of those and see how I feel about them. Thanks everybody for the suggestions

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I'm learning C++ right now, so I'd recommend that :P

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serge2k

true but the problem with java to c++ isn't really syntax.

I'd say java though. You can move pretty easily to C# later, it's object oriented, you can avoid having to deal with some of the low level stuff like C/C++, and if you do need to learn C/C++ later you won't have to struggle a lot with the syntax or the basics like loops or if statements.

Hindsight

It really depends on what you are wanting to do (programming wise) when you are done with school. I echo the C#/Java advice. I wouldn't waste your time with VB.net. In the old days of VB6, VB was a lot easier to get the hang of than other languages but now it's so OOP that it won't be any easier than C# so you might as well learn C# (or continue with Java).

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Either do C++, Java, or C#. You really can't go wrong with either of these languages. Once you have a good foundation on either of those everything falls into place logic wise, just different syntax here and there.

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