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Just wanted some advice which language should i learn as I dont know nothing about programming! I often hear that C is the best. And what should I know before starting that? I know a little bit VB language.

I personally sugegst that all startars sholld learn Qbasic first-It is not only convenient but also solves the purpose in an understandable method......Since I am a beginner I am relying on it, now, Visual basic is rather high standerds,according to me.....

@Shifat Though Qbasic is also my first language(for computer science in HSC) but I must say QBasic and also any Basic is just garbage, pure garbage. Don't learn it as your first language or even learn it. Qbasic taught some really bad programming habits which becomes pain after. If you are learning it for any other reason then classes, drop it just now.

@rankeen If you want to participate in Olympiad of Informatics, learning C++ is better which covers also basic C. But if you want to just learn how to program, learn my vote for python. Python is easy to learn, modern language and you can do wide amount of things easily with python. For learning C++/python you can easily get wide amount of resources on web by googleing.

I have never heard about python. thanks for the new one, I will try it from now, but qbasic seemed rather easy to get for beginners, I mean C language and its commads and symbols can be a bit hard to get at first glance, but in qb it gets very easy, well I doubt Visual basic being a garbage...

I think python is best for newcomers, and C++ for those who need to be pro in programming. Qbasic is just out of use nowadays, so it should be best to pick one of these two.

All Basic stuffs are pure shit! As Ridowan said, these make some bad habits. Learn C++ instead, and believe me you don't have to learn C in order to learn C++, though I love C!

Python is awesome!

And I think the best way to learn programming is to do programming. Just open your IDE start to write program. Having problem ? ask Google!

Note: All I said are about contest programming. But if you want to know about software engineering or web developing or something like that, I don't know anything

I would support that all the basic stuff is just crap. If its Informatics Olympiads you are preparing for,then I would not recommend Python. Learn C/C++ or Pascal. If you finally start algorithmic problem solving ,you will see that which language you use or how many languages you know barely matter.

Also for contest programming,you have to learn very very little C++ To be more specific,learn C upto Structures and then learn STL from C++ and you are done!

Pascal is pretty obsolete too but the person who is becoming 1st in IOI for the last few years did it using Pascal!

found another useful one: cpbook.subeen.com

For learning python(or may be just say simply programming) a good(and funny and interesting) site is http://hukush-pakush.appspot.com/