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Hmm, I was taught Pascal as a beginner. Now I have to learn Java but I hear the logic behind them is similar.

Don't know anything about Basic though, but I'm sure you can find hundreds of tutorials online.

C#

its the easiest to learn, and the most powerful.

Visual Basic sux as hell. C++ is best for programming, but it's damn hard.
And C# is hard too.
In schools there is teaching Pascal, but it's so damn boring and fit only for training.
PHP is good for websites (CMS, text-based games, simple scripts), but it's also not so easy.
Forget Visual Basic - it's worse I've ever seen.

 indeed, C++  is really what you want to work for, though you may need to do other stuff to work your way up to it, if you're a complete novice than vb is good to fool around with.

I started out with java, and as someone said, if you learn to program in any language, you'll master another one within notime. As the way of thinking is whats hard in the beginning.

charasteristic for vb is that it's a lot of copy pasting, as much of the things you want to use, are already written and spread out in different programing forums.

I would not pick c++ as first one to learn, the basics of it is too big :P

Java = newest programming and you would wanna learn this because java is poping up everywhere now :P  im currently a 2nd year student in my high school for this type of programming :P its fun but you have to stay within the rules :P ... if you know math, its kinda like that. Youre allowed to do somethings while you cant do others :P (as far as i know atleast :P) and how you do it is just as important :P if that makes sense :P lol

C++ or C# : well.... i guess ill probably end up learning it :P in college or something :P

lol machine code is hard to learn, because you need to see it in your mind (it sounds like matrix).
I learned first pascal, then C++, next is going to be some visual something or maybe some language that is used to do webpages. Im too lazy but i learn quickly. There is zillions of free pages to learn about languages, check in about.com there are a lots of tutorials there.

C++ is probably most practical to know, along with java, i am computer/electrical engineering double major and i feel that these two will have most use in current/future work.
I have taken assemble and C languages in school and feel like these are more troubnle then they are worth, good luck with whatever you choose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain*beep* (fuk is after brain)
is best programming :P

It's "Hello World Script":

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.

machine code isn't that hard to learn, but you have to program a lot when you want something done. Like one line of C++ code you need like 100 lines of machine code to do the same.

C++ is not a language for starters, java or C# is easier, as you don't have to worry much about memory management.

It looks like there are enough people capable of helping you out.

You would want to start with Java. Its a very much used programming language. Dont go for C++, its not a really productive language, especially not for starters and its simply hard.

A lot of universities start programming with Java, because its relatively easy and has a lot of examples on the web. JSDK here and tutorials here.

I would not go for C#, because it is limited to Windows systems only, unless you do some tricky stuff with for example Mono. And Java simply has more resources on the web.

im taking computer programing in highschool, and im doing java, the one where you start off doing "hello world"?

ya, im going as slow as a snail though... just finished if and else if and switch and going into loops and Math classes