I want to learn how to program, I got lots of time to learn. Which language is good but easy to learn ?
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I want to learn how to program, I got lots of time to learn. Which language is good but easy to learn ?
good languages -> difficult to learn
bad languages -> easy to learn
Thats generally for most things, the more work it effectively consumes to better the result is. I'd advice C and later on C++. C is fast, flexible and stable, but isn't very easy to learn. I'd rather put my time in good languages than bad languages, even if it takes more time ;)
Visual basics is like the steroids of coding. It's the easy way out, but it'll fuck you up for life.
What Pieman said, VB is not good. Its good for very quick business apps for windows, where speed doesn't matter but where you quickly want a screen with GUI. C is for the real programmers, atleast to start with. When you know it you can use libraries/languages (LUA, SDL, ...) within C for extra speciality and efficiency.
Check the [Resources] sticky of this section ;), has some nice tutorials.