Programming Language?

[lolwut]

Java or Ruby on Rails are great languages.

Why are people recommending Microsoft languages? D:

[Pyroka]

If you use PHP, I'd say getting into Java would be pretty easy for you, and then you can pick up C# so easily. I only say Java because it's fun to code in notepad and it's a nice habit to get into.

I do both of these btw, all the languages are very similiar to eachother.

@above post: I tried Ruby on Rails out, liked it.

One other one I'm particularly hard (yes that type of hard) about is Python mmm Python.

[HotelUser]

ASP is quite seriously useless crap. PHP is much more commonly used and much better supported. The fact that ASP is for IIS which hardly anyone uses should be a mighty big turnoff.

Web development right now really requires that you have a good knowledge of PHP and jQuery (no you don't even need to be very Javascript DOM savvy, a fundamental knowledge of how this works is just fine).

http://w3schools.com is an absolute godsend for learning PHP especially since it covers how to communicate with databases.

That's for web development. For development for Windows, OS X and Linux distributions themselves I would really side with C++. C# is ridiculously Windows oriented and excludes other platforms entirely. In my opinion it doesn't have an edge over its older brother C++ but I suppose that is down to personal preference.

If you go C++ you should use the Qt framework which comes with a cross platform GUI toolkit and IDE.

A good C++ tutorial to begin with

A good Qt tutorial (to compliment the one above)

[NitromeGamer]

ASP is an older language, not something I'd really be bothering with :L
ASP.net is a newer language, which can be quite powerful... my only problem with it is the cost of Microsoft servers and server technologies required to run it. If you take a look at their site it looks quite nice (http://www.asp.net/)

[Chippiewill]

Scheme, I went there..

[Pieman]

ASP is quite seriously useless crap. PHP is much more commonly used and much better supported. The fact that ASP is for IIS which hardly anyone uses should be a mighty big turnoff.

Web development right now really requires that you have a good knowledge of PHP and jQuery (no you don't even need to be very Javascript DOM savvy, a fundamental knowledge of how this works is just fine).

http://w3schools.com is an absolute godsend for learning PHP especially since it covers how to communicate with databases.

That's for web development. For development for Windows, OS X and Linux distributions themselves I would really side with C++. C# is ridiculously Windows oriented and excludes other platforms entirely. In my opinion it doesn't have an edge over its older brother C++ but I suppose that is down to personal preference.

If you go C++ you should use the Qt framework which comes with a cross platform GUI toolkit and IDE.

A good C++ tutorial to begin with

A good Qt tutorial (to compliment the one above)

A little outdated tut for Qt

Here's the new linky: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/tutorials.html

The only downside that I have encountered with Qt(not to mention the 3-4 hour compile time) is the way it connects to MySQL databases using it's default MySQL library. It's very easy to retrieve the database info transferred over the connection between the client and the server.

[iZoinc]

C#, Perl, ASP, C++ etc.

[HotelUser]

A little outdated tut for Qt

Here's the new linky: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/tutorials.html

The only downside that I have encountered with Qt(not to mention the 3-4 hour compile time) is the way it connects to MySQL databases using it's default MySQL library. It's very easy to retrieve the database info transferred over the connection between the client and the server.

I'll be honest with you, I haven't gone into depth enough with Qt to utilize its SQL library. I mostly side with it because of it being cross platform. GTK doesn't do it for me on the Mac - entirely ugly widgets

[Pieman]

I'll be honest with you, I haven't gone into depth enough with Qt to utilize its SQL library. I mostly side with it because of it being cross platform. GTK doesn't do it for me on the Mac - entirely ugly widgets

I don't even want to know how GTK looks like on a Mac :hand:

[HotelUser]

I don't even want to know how GTK looks like on a Mac :hand:

It leaves a lot to be desired.