I want to start learning programming. What should I start with?

[DaSimkin]

slacker164 said:
I'd strongly recommend Visual Basic(VB). It's most useful for business type programming (databases etc.), but you can do just about anything with it and it's quite easy to learn. The programming concepts you learn will carry over to pretty much any other language and many beginner books (if you're learning on your own) will even use some directdraw/3D functions and game examples. You'll want to move on to C/C++ etc. eventually, but VB is somewhat designed as a learning language, yet still more capable than many give it credit for

 

 How is VB more useful for business type programming? That's complete and utter jibberish.

 VB is SHIT.  Yes you can do a lot with it.  But you can't do it well.

 Learn almost any other language and you are better off.