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Originally Posted by ignat

I guess this can lead to one of those never ending arguments about which programming language is better. The best thing to do is for you to try and play around with languages so that you can formulate your own healthy oppinion on which one fits your needs best. So go ahead and dabble. Maybe someday you'll learn to love C++ the way i do and then the world is yours to code. And trust me if Java could do much more than C++, Windows, Visual Studio and all other goodies would be written in it. They are not though

Many things are written in Java

Im only just getting into C++ but it seems that has A LOT of power, it just takes a long time to code being that you need to define everything. VB I never really got along with, but I am deffiantely thinking about going back to it.

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Java went the same way as VB, I had no real use for it and couldnt see its advantages (and still cant really). PHP was always best for me, since I do a lot more Web Based programming than anything else.

I think ill have to see what Java is like, then come back and compare it to C++. As for C, ive been told its a lot better to learn C++. If you learn C and want to move on to C++ you have to 'unlearn' everything you know and start from scratch, whereas C++ can do almost everything C can do (as far as I know).

Yep, you should go to Java

Hehe, but I'm still gonna try everything out, so I'll see how it goes in my own opinion. ignat is right on that point

Originally Posted by majinbuu1023

where can I get Visual Basic? and where can I learn to make Java? and what files are needed for Java etc,etc...

anyways thetzfreak you got me excited.. what software(S) did your dad make?

cheers

They are offering a free beta version of Virtual Studio at the microsoft website. Or, you can can just one language from the pack like I did

I just got the express version of visual basic 2005. Check it out here:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/

Just search the internet to learn java

I'm not quite there yet hehe... but my dad said something about using the Java Virtual Machine. I'm downloading it right now

Well, my dad did a LOT of project, anywhere from getting quieries from databases, all the way to a huge project of creating a web-based system to control DSL service for a telecom company. All the company had to do was sit at any of their computers and control the DSL system.

Hope that helped

EDIT: was downloading the wrong thing... it turns out something weird happened to java virtual machine... don't know what. Just search for "java compiler" on google.