Thread: Whats a good programming language for beginners?

I'm a newbie to programming. I'm getting a laptop soon and I was thinking about starting to learn a programming language. My math aint that great but I was wondering what could be a good programming language for beginners. And I was wondering if programming involved math too. Thanks. I need something that will help me with basics and something that will let me write my first program.

Freebasic would be a good one to learn with. It's very intuitive, but also has more advanced techniques once you get a bit more into it

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Freebasic would be a good one to learn with. It's very intuitive, but also has more advanced techniques once you get a bit more into it

I don't know, doesn't basic use a lot programing techniques that're not transferable to other languages? I'd think that something like java would be a better choice.

So does java. Basic is more like a real programming language. Freebasic is object oriented but also prodecural oriented, like c++. Java has some techiques that makes bad programmers like orphan deltection and garbage collection

Cool thanks guys. I have a old Javascript book and I'm sure that will help me out too.

Javascript is not considered a programming language though, it's a scripting language. Be aware of that subtle, but important difference.