Druid

@Fall Back Son: Mainly utilize C,C++,C#,Java and PL/SQL now. So those are the only ones I can claim I know.

@Druid: Thanks to a eccentric professor in college, who I happened to have for more than one class every semester over the course of four years, we had assignments in several languages that required a deep understanding of the syntax, etc. I encountered most of these languages the past 12 years, with a bulk of them between 1998-2003.

JAlexBrown

The languages that I've used, in some capacity at some point in my life, include...

BASIC
Assembly
Java
C/C++
Pyton
Perl
SQL
Javascript
HTML

The only language that I actually use at the moment (as a student) is Java. Java's also the only language I'm fluent in, although I used to know quite a bit of C++. I'm getting rusty with it, though.

As for a language to start with, I'd suggest Basic. I started with Basic so I could learn the basics (no pun intended) of logic programming. I didn't use Basic to create handy or useful applications, though. I breezed through most of the languages I mentioned above, and then I took a high school course and learned C/C++. Today I'm in college learning Java, and next year I'll start C#.

The moral is that what language you start with isn't really important; how you implement your starting language to learn new languages is what IS important.

teishu

I think that if you were to start with a C based language (C, C++, C# etc) don't start with C# like i did. I regret it now because the .Net framework makes things so easy that now i want to learn C++ i find it really difficult, therefore i suggest C/C++.

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