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Old 03-18-2004, 12:35 AM   #28 (permalink)
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I guess it depends on what you want to do with your programming. If you want to develop desktop applications, C++ is one obvious choice.

When I started my journey into programming about 10 years ago (not counting BASIC, which I learned in high school in the late '80s) the first language I learned was Perl. Back then it was super-popular, since PHP hadn't been invented yet.

If you want to get into web programming you can hardly go wrong with PHP and MySQL. A solid understanding of both will enable you to program almost any imaginable web application. And a big bonus is they're both relatively easy to learn.
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