Best first programming language

[Matthew A Coulliette]

Dennis,

I am going to be starting classes in the fall, so I have been doing
research on this subject.  I am anti-Microsoft and pro-Linux/open
source.  The languages I want to learn are listed below in the order I
plan on learning them.

Latex: a markup language (it is simple to learn and useful)
Bash: a common shell (As you know the purpose of a shell is to provide
access to the kernel, also Bash is written in C.)
C: a general purpose language (the linux kernel is written in C)
C#: simple, modern, object-oriented language (it should teach good habits)
C++: a middle-level language
Perl: a scripting language
Python: a high-level language

I am not a programmer or a developer (yet), however, I wanted to share
my research.  Hope this helps.

MatthewMPP







Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this.
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> A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer course in programming. His goal is to become a business applications programmer.
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> He asked me what language he should start with. I'd guess the prgramming landscape is changing with more services going into the cloud.
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> Joseph, Hans, Charles I'm sure you have opinoins and I welcome anyone elses.
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> My friend, Ian isn't on the list so I'll point him to gmane.org to follow the discussion.
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> dennisk
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