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What Is The Best Programming Language For A Beginner?

by Kurtemis

I want to learn how to program games. Which programming language should I use?

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Start out with something like Visual Basic

Submitted by Kerry Kobashi on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 10:20pm.

I've programmed with many computer programming languages in my time. Here's a chronology of languages I've learned.:

Apple Basic
Apple Logo
Pascal
8086/8088 Assembly language
C
C++
Visual Basic
ASP
PHP

It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you are looking to do computer development on Windows, use VB.NET or CSharp which are more modern languages leveraging the Windows .NET framework. If you want to program on Linux, use C/C++.

If you are doing web development, learn PHP, Ruby On Rails, or Perl.

Kerry is the founder of KerryOnWorld. He lives in Silicon Valley and has worked as an engineer and project manager. He owns Kobashi Computing a consulting company.