i want to learn how to code. What programming languauge should i start in?

I'm not interested in web coding BTW.

any suggestions?

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Java or C++.

I started with Turbo Pascal, but thats outdated. And Visual Basics - dont know, not that interesting.

Depends on what kind of programs you want to write ...

C++ i would suggest

Don't use Visual Basics its so shitty

If you want to develop anything with a user interface C++ can be a pain ... For high performance and/or command line applications it is really the only way to go though.

do you guys recommend i start big, and even though it will be hard, after that i can learn the other programming languages easier?

or do you recommend i start small, so that way i work my way up?

@Happy: thtas why I would say Java. I developed a cell phone game with it once - quite fun.

I suggest starting with (by today's standards) a more bare-bones language like C. It's powerful enough to do anything you want, yet there isn't much syntax for you to learn.

Buy a good C programming book, and when you can code some basic algorithms with loops, recursion, arrays and structures, you can move on to C++, Java or C#.

At some point, you'll have to learn the really important part of programming, which is data structures and algorithms.

@NJ5: Then lets start with Assembler...that way you learn it all bottom up the hard way.