Easiest programming lagnuage?

[imapwnu]

& python is just text thats it.

Jah, that would be so you actually learn how to write python code instead of learning how to drag and drop and have microsoft visual stuff assist you in generating code.

Python. Your brain won't turn to mush from using drag-and-drop vb techniques.
Yea, like python it's like one of the 3 p's of ownage. Python, php and perl.
Buy a few books, Python programing for the absolute beginer, Learning python, Jython, python on the win32 if your a windows noob, ect.

Yea yea, get in with PyPy and get program for frozen binaries.
Own it up. Jah.

Then after a while get better IDE for longer projects and stuff.

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[Tomm]

Don't even bother learning Visual Basic. It is one of the worst programming languages out there. Also don't bother with Python because frankly, its not really used for desktop applications. C++ or C# would be your best choice.. but it is far from easy. You can find free C++ IDE/Compilers easy, however, I would recommend dev-c++. C++ is also OS independent.. theortically you can run your program without a Operating System as it is compiled into native machine code. If your are programming solely for windows you may as well stick to Visual Studio 2005 C++ but do not use the .Net stuff as that kills the independancy of c++.

[Amilo]

How can you call VB a real programming language anyone? It's so bad it doesn't deserve the title of 'programming language'.

[Splinter]

Well if you want to create good gui programs then I would suggest using C++ which is a high level programming language. But I would also use the QT toolkit which allows you to build easy guis and can be compiled in both windows and linux. http://qdevelop.org/download/

[Lambda]

Python or Scheme for a beginner. I advise against C++ if you have little experience. Starting with 'simple' languages, particularly multi-paradigm languages like Python and Scheme, helps you to learn the fundamentals without worry too much about the implementation.

Tomm, Python is very popular for desktop applications.

[Net-Margin]

C# is the one I would recommend, or Java.

[Amilo]

I would also reccomend C#

[Splinter]

C#?? Why not just learn C++ which can be ported to various operating systems. C# can only be compiled in windows.

[Lambda]

C#?? Why not just learn C++ which can be ported to various operating systems. C# can only be compiled in windows.

Largely the same paradigms and constructs but C# is easier to use. You could even call C++ pointless for his needs.

With Mono and MonoDevelop you can develop and deploy C# applications on Linux and other operating systems.

[Mentor]

Java is very easy to pick up, and there are alot of very nice and helpful ide's avaible for it (blueJ is very good for beginners, as it makes the Object oriented nature of the language more obvious and easy to understand if your new to it) Granted i learnt java with a reasonable amount of programming experience in other langauges which as alot of the key concepts are pretty transferable means my starting isnt really the same as a true beginners.
VB6 is probabaly the easiest to start with as u get quick results, but its quite boreing to use. Java on the other hand is actually pretty fun to mess around with (if your a programming kinda-person)