What programming language?

I have in a long time wanted to learn programming, but I never got the chancve tor eally get into it..
What I wonder, what programming languages do you speak?
Here are mine:

HTML
I knew thi very well and such before, but then I got Frontpage and Dreamweaver, now I only use it for some stuff, and usethe layout thing for the rest.. Really sad when I think of how much I have forgotten

Qbasic
Heh, I actually went through a 300 paged turtorial for this two years ago, but I only remember a bit, and have no desire to learn it again..

AGS
Okey, so I wouldn't really call this a programming language, it's what language which is used in the game creator AGS, but it is really simple and such, so it isn't really hard

Delphi
Oh, lol, almost forgot (I did forget actually, this is edited in), I had delhpi for a while, but heh, I didn't do any programming, only using built in functions.. so.. It was a short and lame usage ^^

Python
This is somewqhat okey, I'm learning this atm., slow but secure ^^
I learn this only because I talked to some devs, and they said that it was easiest to first learn this, then learn C++ (which is my mai goal), and I might take Java too.. I'm at "lists" atm., not very far..


Here are some other programming languages which I want to learn:
- Java
- PHP
- C++


So.. how about you?

Well... I know SOME Visual Basic 6, not VB .Net, though I do have it. And currently I am taking a Programming WWW class in school, so I'm going to learn some HTML, Java, and PHP.

Vb .Net is so different than VB 6, and I heard they are coming out with a new VB soon, with the gayest name...something like Windsock...oh yeah it's called Visual Basic "Whidbey". Such a stupid name. Like Windows "Longhorn".

And then in 2005 they're coming out with ANOTHER Visual Basic with another gay name: Visual Basic "Orcas". Thats also the year Windows "Longhorn" is coming out.

I wish my school had the possibillity to have programming classes =\
Anyway, I thought of learning VB too, but I asked around, and people said that if you wanted to learn C++, I should not take VB before after taht..

I've dabbled lightly in HTML. Thats about it. I'm not much of a computer person.

I'd probably pick the stuff up if i had the chance to.

My school has classes on C++, Visual Basic, Auto-CAD and some other stuff, but I was more interested in speech and journalism electives for next year.

Well, there are of course QBasic and Turbo Pascal, which I became quite familiar with...

But in my later school years we used Visual Basic 6. I'm probably not as good as you guys, but I made a 2 player snake game, and a graph plotter, and different database type programs... it was quite fun.

And by myself I started to learn how to use C++ but I only got as far as making a very basic paint program.

Originally posted by OldBeane
Well, there are of course QBasic and Turbo Pascal, which I became quite familiar with...

But in my later school years we used Visual Basic 6. I'm probably not as good as you guys, but I made a 2 player snake game, and a graph plotter, and different database type programs... it was quite fun.

And by myself I started to learn how to use C++ but I only got as far as making a very basic paint program.

Both those are MUCH more then I cand do...
Here is the most advance proggram that I have written myself:

#This program is hte most advanced I have made myself for now (16:12, 31.01.2004)
#It the same kind of game as one of the samples that was in the turtorial,
#but I coded this myself. 
#Woohoo! I made a ascii! I rock!
print " ____          __   ___   ___ "
print "/    \  |  |  |    /     / "
print "|   __  |  |  |-   \__   \__ "
print "\____/  \__/  |__  .__/  .__/ "
print "           By Peefy "
print " "
#Set number which is the answer. I'll probably make it random later
number = 4
guess = 0
while guess != number : 
    guess = input ("Guess the number: ")
    
    if guess > number :
        print "Lower then that"

    elif guess < number :
        print "Higher then that"
print "You made it! The number was", number

I made an Address Book im my Visual Basic programming class...that was the most advanced thing. It had pages of coding.

That, and a tic tac toe game was also kind of hard.

If you want to see the code for a Tic Tac Toe game in Visual Basic 6, it's attached. It has 3 different color themes for it, each with it's own music in the background. Heh... I got bored doing a regular tic tac toe game, so i made it better!

I'm doing Visual Basic 3 in Computer Science class (C++ would be much better, of course, but it's a bit advanced for newbies), and outside of school I've done HTML and some C++. Never really got into C++, but I did have a decent amount of HTML knowledge...which has since faded off into nothingness.

I know a very, very, limited amount HTML. Less than the basics now.

So, I don't really get into programming, im not the computer type of guy, I'm just the type of guy to use one a lot.

I slowly forgot it and don't care to remember it again.

I know only a tad of HTML, and i'm going to take a computer course soon that teaches HTML and C++.

I know all the HTML-based languages [xml, dhtml, etc.] and can work with JavaScript and related things.

I also know a small bit of ForTran, and am teaching myself C++.

If you count Maple/Mathematica/MatLab, then yeah, those too.

Of course, there's always "DOS Basic" haha. But that's nothing.

I know HTML, PHP, MySQL/ASP, DOM, JavaScript, and DHTML mostly by heart from coding so much. And now I'm taking advanced C++ classes.

i know a little... and make emphasis in little, fortran.... heh i bet i forgot by now, i saw it when i was starting on the university.
also know very little html... but this even less than frotran lol XP

Originally posted by Peefy
I wish my school had the possibillity to have programming classes =\
Anyway, I thought of learning VB too, but I asked around, and people said that if you wanted to learn C++, I should not take VB before after taht..

Yeah if you want to learn C++ DEFINATELY don't learn VB first... my friend was in a Robotics class where they used C++ coding to control robots and make them do stuff. He learned VB at the same time as he was learning C++, so I guess thats not learning VB first...

But if you want to combine C++ and VB, you should go for C# (or C Sharp), the newest C Language. While C++ doesn't let you view the form or place objects on it (which VB does), C# lets you use the form just like you would in VB, so its a VB environment with C++ coding. I don't use this though because I don't know C++.... but my friend wants it bad from me. It comes with Visual Basic .NET.

Oh man I am such a friggen computer nerd....

For reference, those interested in starting into the use of C# can do so for free by downloading the .NET Framework SDK. I know there's a link for it somewhere up on MSDN Academic Alliance, but it shouldn't be hard to Google for either. Just don't install it with a copy of Visual Studio installed. Oh, the people I've had to walk through VSNET repairs.

C# is all well and good, but it's still a very young language, and while an open ECMA-recognized standard, it's still rather int he pocket of Microsoft. I still recommend Java as an entrance language, if only for its multiplatform aspects, garbage collector, sandbox, documentation, general ease, and reasonably solid OO basis.

Now, to brainstorm the languages I've learned in the past decade...

Markup Languages:
- SGML.
- HTML.
- XHTML.
- XML.

Scripting Languages:
- VB Script.
- Javascript/JScript/ECMA Script.
- Actionscript.
- Python (although yes, far more general).

Assembly Platforms:
- Motorola 6809.
- IBM assembly for 286, 386, 486, 586, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III.
- ARM7/9.
- ARCSIM.
- SPARC (limited).
- PowerPC (limited).

Server-side Scripting Languages:
- PHP.
- ASP.
- Apache SSI.
- Pliant.

DBMS Platforms:
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MSSQL
- DB2 (too much SQL, huh?)
- Access

Shell Script Platforms:
- bash
- ksh
- DOS .bat (for sake of including it somewhere)

Other:
- C, C++, C#
- Java
- VisualBasic
- QBasic
- Turing

I think that's about it. I'm certain I've forgotten something, though. At the very least I've left out a few platform-specifics, like C on Solaris, Linux, Windows, and such. Oh well, I've already spent enough time ordering entries. I also couldn't find anywhere to slot in CSS... oh well.

I'd love to be able to say that I love COBOL, but my crippling hatred for the language leaves me incapable of actually using it.

EDIT: More slowly trickle back to mind. Smalltalk, Prolog. Maple, if it counts, although I haven't used it since the first year of university.

You know alot Dryth!
*kneels*

Anyway, I asked if I should start with C#, but the ones I asked said no, because some minus wih the .NET and such.. Don't remember what it was, and they said If I really wanted to learn it, I could do it afterwards..

Most of the languages I've learned have been picked up out of necessity. Every compsci course seems to have its own associated language, at my university, or if not, has one specific set of arcane libraries that must be learned.

Whom is it that you've been consulting for other recommendation, Peefy?