Where to start, Please help

[jgerardo27]

I have been working in the IT field for about 4 years, Networking/support.
I would like and have the oppurtunity to move into the developement world. I dont know where to start.
With so many languages.

I would like to learn to build web interfaces
Do I learn vb6,java c# .net
Thank you for your help

 

[newbiepg]

you will get paid the most in C,c++ system level programming

 

[Transcend]

It's also a little more complicated that some other forms of programming ...

The advantage I find of using VB/ASP/.Net is that the software can turn out functional programs in a relatively short period of time.

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[Tarwn]

If you want to do web interfaces than your options are:
ASP with VBScript - similar to VB6 so you get that added bit of skill if you decide to pick up VB6
PHP - similar to C but nowehere near as similar as VBScript is to VB6
ColdFusion - similar to ...?
JSP - Java Server Pages...I think this one is pretty obvious

Your other option, of course, being .Net in one of it's many forms. You can write components in any of the .Net languages and re-use them in ASP.Net sites, so this is really up to you. I cn't tell you whether it would be easier or harder than ASP simply because I know Java already and know VB, so I found ASP.Net and VB.Net extremely easy to pick up, but can't really estimate how long it/how easy it would be for a newbie.

I think I would probably go with ASP if I were you, I think it is probably the easiest to start with if you want to do web stuff, and will help you learn functionality like loops and variable declaration and such that are fundamental to all languages, while also learning the syntax of the language which will take you several steps closer to learning VB6.

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