angry_asian

that was just as hard...in the end i went with gentoo

King

Don't get me started in Gentoo lol.

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Toro

Don't get me started with trying out Linux Distros! lol

Soulstorm

As I read in another thread, I too think that the language of choice does not really matter. Chances are that you will eventually learn more than one programming language.

Example: When I first started to learn C++, I thought that this was the only programming language I would have to use, because of the variety of things that you can do with it. I was very wrong about this, as I was forced to learn Objective-C in order to do some GUI programming in OS X. And I didn't regret learning the second one, I also like it as much as I like C++. I use both languages now (Objective C support for other platforms than OS X is very small), and I don't think I will stop using either of them for many years.

So, you can start with whatever you like. You will never find yourself saying "Oh, I shouldn't have wasted my time with this" because no time is ever wasted when you are learning a programming language, even if you don't use it in the long term. What you will have surely learnt is programming techniques, and the ability to divide a larger problem into smaller ones, in order to fix it.

My advice is to begin with whatever language you like. I would tell you to learn C++ first, because of its portability and OOP concepts. C# is not portable, and plain C will not teach you much about Object Oriented Programming techniques. But be sure that you won't stick with only that language in the end, you will want to learn more.

But that's just my point of view...

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