Easiest programming lagnuage?

[jackass]

I want to start creating programs, and to use the easiest one avaliable. I heard VB & Python were good. I downloaded both. VB is full of files and I can't get it started because I can't seem to find the actual program & python is just text thats it. I heard of EPL, so I downloaded it because it had buttons ect, rather than coding your program from scratch, but my AVG found 6 virus's on it. So any help? :8

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[Swinkid]

i use VB so icant help you sorry

[ZAG]

What do you mean VB is full of files?

[Mentor]

Visual Basic is probably one of the most obvious and easy to start with due to its graphical IDE, and drop and drag form editor "/ plus being a basic language the programming commands are quite obvious and simple.

[Voldemort]

If you really want to go somewhere with it, learn PHP. If you can understand basic logic (like 'if mom buys milk, then eat a cookie'), you can get a good start, and then gradually learn more.

You don't need a program to use it, just notepad (or another text editor but NOT Microsoft Word) and a server with PHP (or you can install PHP on your own system and run it like a server, but that's more advanced). There's lots of free php-enabled hosts, just search around. None of the common ones have it, like freewebs or piczo, but a google search will bring up literally thousands that do.

I'd reccomend using http://www.w3schools.com to learn the basics, and if you're still interested, buy a book.

[Cool--]

nice info there voldemort

[Mentor]

If you really want to go somewhere with it, learn PHP. If you can understand basic logic (like 'if mom buys milk, then eat a cookie'), you can get a good start, and then gradually learn more.

You don't need a program to use it, just notepad (or another text editor but NOT Microsoft Word) and a server with PHP (or you can install PHP on your own system and run it like a server, but that's more advanced). There's lots of free php-enabled hosts, just search around. None of the common ones have it, like freewebs or piczo, but a google search will bring up literally thousands that do.

I'd reccomend using http://www.w3schools.com to learn the basics, and if you're still interested, buy a book.

php isnt compiled (in normal circumstance) so its not actualy a programming language, its a scripting language, like javascript.

[.:TeamAmerica:.]

If you wanna learn PHP, I'd reccomend checking out www.killerphp.com
Have video tutorials and various other things.

[jackass]

PHP & HTML I already know. But I want to use something which acts like a tool with previews and stuff, like frontpage has, where you can drag and drop stuff and postion things, but for programs.

[Mr.OSH]

PHP is a dynamic scripting language, not really programming language. Its best to know it but the easiest programming language to learn is probably Java (Not JavaScript) either that or VB. Java is very self explanatory and you only need notepad and basic knowledge of cmd (if using windows) there’s a load of Java tutorials you can find at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ and that will teach you the basics of complying and writing Java using jdk6 etc. It’s not too hard if you can learn PHP you can learn java no problem. Only took me a few weeks to get the hang of it and I can use it easily now.