Programming Language For Beginners?

Java was a pain in the *** when i did that (ever so briefly) in HS. It didnt help that our teacher didnt rly know it either. But i had such a high grade that i didnt bother with the java.

I started off at ~6 years old self taught and from what my dad knew about electrical engineering using 6502 Assembly on a Commodore plus/4 (not even an Apple, lol). So I've always found ASM to be great, and loved it when they taught pointers in C/C++.

Hell in high school for my Turbo Pascal class, I got extra credit for writing a mouse library that the class and following classes could use, using asm commands in Turbo Pascal.

What Milamber said, but basically this:

The OP asked what programming language would be easy to learn, not markup language or config file, or even script.

/comfort Kali

eh.. its all a language to me'

Visual Basic is a pretty good start.

I only offered my suggestion because it's easy to learn, easier than a 'real' language. Takes like 3 hours to learn the basics to the point where you can create a website of your own. You can't really say that for a programming language. In 3 hours you're still learning fundamentals and basics.

I'm obviously not the person to ask on this though, just thought I'd offer my personal opinion.

Cobalt, Pascal, Fortran.... errr no don't even touch those.

Java and Python are probably going to be the best routes for multitudes of reasons. By the time you master one of those there will be a more streamlined variation.

HTML/CSS/Javascript are cool things to know but they don't really do much for you unless you want to be make web pages, but you can pretty much get a grasp on them in a day or two.

COBOL ftw.

Android predictive text strikes again! Yes COBOL

If there was ever a way to permanently deleted memories from the brain, it would be the semester I took COBOL, lol.

Just the class though.

Hopefully karma has caught up with the guy who thought up that language.

I personally find VB code particularly annoying to look at, but that may be either to the language structure (and my general lack of exposure to similar syntax) and/or the proficiency of the individual who has written it.

Java has a few things that a beginning programmer shouldn't really worry about (e.g. private vs public, classes).

But really, just go grab this:
https://manual.cs50.net/appliance/19/
and work your way through the lectures and problem sets.

I'm not trying to rip on you Kali but you're trying to equate somebody wanting to learn how to fly to "hey a moped is easy to drive." HTML is easy, and shouldn't take somebody 3 hours, especially anyone who has played XI (between official macros, spellcast or gearswap) or used this site extensively, they should know line syntax and be able to get it really easy. Don't get me wrong, there's a few similarities, but syntax and references are about where it ends.

Honestly the only real programming I've done would probably be in MS VB, definitely not 6, I'm not that old.

I learned it for a class and one of the first projects only a few people had a working program, I was one of them. Mine was crude but it worked, one of the other guy's project was damn near a piece of art. I had about a page of code, and simple buttons and text entry fields. His was just amazing, and I still don't know how he did it.