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in Ya'lls opinions, what's the best programming language to be using, because atm, I'm pretty much fluent in Pascal except a few bits, and I know bits and bobs of C++, It'd be pushing it if I said I knew the basics of C++ :L But I have time to kill, so I thought I'd learn a programming language worth while learning because Pascal is like ages old and I can't do anything particularly "Useful" In it, i.e. for me, Making a game unless you call Ascii portal a game xD! Programming is a pretty big interest of mine so I don't see why I shouldn't look into some other programming languages in some detail. Any suggestions? 

Fanx,
Dan.

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Depending on what you'd like to do? (Unless you don't plan to do anything and this is just a hobby 'duh lol')

Web Design:
PHP
FLASH(Suppose gaming flash aswell)


Gaming:
C#
C++ (No matter how much you know you can learn more, This is teh best ;])

Haha yeah, I guess I could look into detail about C++ and as for PHP, I already know some of that ;] but flash? I didn't realise you could program in that? At school, all we really did was the animation side of it :L 

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Aha Sorry, It's JavaScript (web design) it's being used alot more nowadays.

As for flash, yeah it's Java thats what I meant, I call Java Flash just a habit.

DanScott posted: (3rd Mar 2011 10:03 pm)

Haha yeah, I guess I could look into detail about C++ and as for PHP, I already know some of that ;] but flash? I didn't realise you could program in that? At school, all we really did was the animation side of it :L 

Yeah, flash isn't just animation. My snake game was made in flash and it works quite good. I still prefer Java over Flash though.

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Flash Actionscript is really easy to learn "programming". It was the first sort of programming I did on a computer.

Java is good for web programming applets but not for executable files. I honestly don't think that highly of java other than as a gateway language.

C++ is I think the best cross platform language. It gives you a lot of control over what you're doing and has a lot of features other languages don't have. But, it requires that you know what you're doing, it doesn't have a garbage collector that takes care of dynamic memory allocation like java or c# do.

C# is good for windows based GUI programming. If you look into XNA it's good for developing games for microsoft devices like Zunes, Windows phones, xbox arcade games, etc. I know some people don't like it too much (Addison mainly :P) but it isn't too bad for mobile platforms.

As for web? You should obviously know HTML but I would definitely suggest PHP as well. I haven't looked too much into other web languages but that's what I've used in the past and it works well enough.

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XNA can suck my dick. I would love C# if Allegro was ported over to it.

ethan got a lot of the points, but here is an easier way to look at it.

Client web development: Flash or Java. They both are good speed-wise

Server web development: Java.

Client program development: C++.

Server program development: C# or C++.

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Addison posted: (4th Mar 2011 06:16 am)

XNA can suck my dick. I would love C# if Allegro was ported over to it.

ethan got a lot of the points, but here is an easier way to look at it.

Client web development: Flash or Java. They both are good speed-wise

Server web development: Java.

Client program development: C++.

Server program development: C# or C++.

would you suggest any kind of get-started programs for a beginner to C++ because with Pascal, To get a flavour of what I could do with that with assigning variables and such, I made that Text-based portal game which was a fun project but Command prompt based which is a bit sucky :P

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