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Originally Posted by Undocked Windy
Hi -
I think what will determine what language you should further pursue would probably depend on your will to do so and what you're going to be doing later on in your future (as in what are you going to be making or creating).
C++ is a great language, but it's hard.
Visual Basic is very entertaining and extremely easy - this is a great language to first learn and it's my main language.
Python is very.. strange..
Delphi is very similar to Visual Basic but a tab bit more complicated.
Java is fun, easy, and a great learning experience.
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I pretty much agree there, you definately need to know what you want to do with it. Because going anywhere near .net would kill a non-windows background. Python is strange, and a bit of an effort to get used to for those of us who started on C style programming (and it makes it hard to migrate to a C style language)...
I'm not a fan of VB myself, but if it was a bad language it wouldn't still be in existance. And yeah Java is definately the one i'd suggest (currently expanding my knowledge on java with a lovely large o'reilly book[or three]).
And just out of curiosity, how old are you? because if you're planning to go to uni (like me) and study any course involving programming (again like me[which is why i mention it btw]) you'll find that most courses teach Java as a foundation language (basically because it's easy to get certified). So it's a big plus to learn it early in life.
Still, any language will give you a decent grounding in programming and that's the main thing. Learn the concepts and you'll be able to apply them to different languages.
(p.s. sorry that was longer than i thought it would be, but yes i agree with what was said and post back with what you plan to do =]).