I need everyones opinion.

I was wondering what is the best age to start to learn programing?
I wanted everyones opinion. And also should you go straight to C, C++
programing or start from Visual basic and work your way up.

I want everyones opinion.

the earlier the better and go right for the meat. skip vb it will only serve to confuse and can make one lazy.

Kiler,

Personally, I don't think there's a certain age, merely once you find yourself comfortable and able to understand. Having an interest in learning also helps quite a bit. I, myself, would start at Visual Basic and work my way up, as, I believe, it's best to have that as a foundation, sort of like building a house.

well i dont think there is a ahe issue here....im 25 yrs old and im just starting to learn python.....so my opinion there isnt a certain age group..

Of course age, parse, is not the issue, but because he asked "what is the best age " then age does become an issue. Like Tedob1 indicated, the younger the better. Now, obviously it is never too late to begin.....but kilerboots, I recommend starting now. True c++ is more difficult than VB but it is definitely not THAT hard, especially if you start.....*now*. :)

Blankman71 said: ""I, myself, would start at Visual Basic and work my way up, as, I believe, it's best to have that as a foundation, sort of like building a house.""

I once thought the same way....

Trust me its bad to startout on... I started out with VB and now im haveing to correct old habbits because of VB's over the top user friendlyness and santax. Now its about a year or 2 later & I've been playing with C++ lately I've found that alot of languages especially OOP languages are highly similair to C|C++. Its much more powerfull then VB to... it can run under *nix. Don't get me wrong VB is great and easy but the main reasons why I don't really like it now is because its to addictive and VB needs to many .ocx files when your playing with alot of the componets in VB.

|The|Specialist Said:

"I once thought the same way....

Trust me its bad to startout on... I started out with VB and now im haveing to correct old habbits cause by VB's over the top user friendlyness and santax. Now its about a year or 2 later & I've been playing with C++ lately I've found that alot of languages especially OOP languages are highly similair to C|C++. Its much more powerfull then VB to... not only that but it can run under *nix. Don't get me wrong VB is great and easy but the main reasons why I don't really like it now is because its to addictive and VB needs to many .ocx files when your playing with alot of the componets in VB."

Hehe, well, this is why I chose networking as a major, Specialist. Never was much of a programmer. :)

Well to me there is no "target age" to start programming. If you can understand what you are doing then by all means do it. As for what to learn first, well learn what language you want to use most. I personally started with perl, then went to C and now learning C++..........yeah I am a late bloomer.

No matter what language you pick have fun. If you aren't doing it for a living, you are doing it for entertainment, and why piss yourself off to be entertained?

Good Luck

These "best programming language" arguments happend just about every week.
To the point...
The university I am going to uses Java as the intro programming language. It is a fully featured object-oriented language and it avoids the complications of memory management found in C++ (since everything is a reference (pointer), and it has garbage collection to free up memory). There are a wide variety of other pluses and minuses to Java.
Take a look at these links:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...threadid=16999
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=127605
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=232806

Hopefully this can get you started.
There are a lot more threads available to read on these topics.
Good luck!

i started learning with good old pascal, moved onto VB, then from there learnt C, then C++, now i'm learning Visual C++, and they are ALL very similarin style. Start of with an easy language to "wean" yurself onto them so you get used to the style of writing, from there you can do anything you ever wanted to !

IF you have no experience up to now you should start with making yourself a bit familliar with batch file scripting. You may also want to start with some perl cuz it is a forgiving language.

Also if you have no experience I would reccomend to learn some HTML (no wysiwyg though), this will help you start thinking like a programmer (although html is no programming language).

I would not go for VB (as mentioned before) because you will be stuck with MS.
C or C++ is good but quit hard to learn.
You can read all the text you want but to become a programmer you will have to actually program.
Think up some projecct and see if you can do the job.

Good luck !

I started by learning Assembly many many years ago then went to C++. Like everyone has said the earlier the better. :D

Definitly as soon as you can is the best way to go. And i would also say to start with C, C++

PeacE
-BoB

its not how old you are, its the dessire to learn. if you want to learn something you will do it. if you just want to do it cause everyone else is, but your not really interested, then you will slip and fail misserably. ha, maybe you wont though.

and i would start at the most "important" language. usually c++. this is because most objects these days are based on c++. also, it could be advantageous to go directly into c++ and skip c. i got that from some tut site for c++.... http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/htm/ch01.htm

so, i have entrusted you with my opinion, use it well.. hehe, always wanted to say something like that

id start with C++, c is a bit older and more procedural, most newer languages in my experience are Object oriented. go for c++

I think before learning any programming language you should have a little knowhow about logic, math and especially how to write the things down... 3 isn't a good age to learn c++, you should be playing with ... I don't know ... Don't dive in the computer to young, for there's much much more in life. Enter when you feel ready and when you feel you can keep computers and reality in the same brain... for most part.

as early as U spark a interest!!

start with C or C++, I started with VB and it confused me when starting to code other langs

wow thanks for all your great responses everyone it really helped me. thank you

i made my first BASIC program at 10, anyway the best age to start coding is NOW, if you have children then encourage them to learn programming, it´s easy, beautiful and they will thank you in the future.

i made my first BASIC program at 10, anyway the best age to start coding is NOW, if you have children then encourage them to learn programming, it´s easy, beautiful and they will thank you in the future.