The Best Computer Programming Language for Beginners
When a variety of products are in the market, and the products can be used to gain a skill, there is always a product more suitable for a beginner than another product and in the world of computer programming, I would personally recommend learning PASCAL before proceeding to any other language.
Though in some people have said that starting to learn programming one would be better of if he/she started with VISUAL BASIC (a language developed by Microsoft from Q-BASIC), I would say that PASCAL is able to give the beginner a friendlier and expert based approached that VISUAL BASIC does not give.
PASCAL programming lingual as the advantage of being a structured program other than being an object oriented program. Though it requires that the learner understands how to work effectively with variables and come up with the functions he/she will need in his/her program, the language is an easy one to understand and follow stepwise. It makes it easier to acquire the needed programming skills that will enable the beginner develop into being a computer programmer faster. After learning PASCAL, the beginner will find it easier to learn other professional based languages such as C++, and JAVA.
VISUAL BASIC is recommended for a beginner because most of the functions and procedures in other structured programs such as PASCAL have been done for the user. For example, instead of coming up with the user interface for click command, the VISUAL BASIC has, in a three dimension format, come up with a drag and drop command which one only need to put on the active form. The command will therefore be just told on what to do when clicked (for example open a file). But in PASCAL, the user has to put the command by personal design using built in units in the PASCAL, and locate the command at the desired place on screen (monitor) where the user can click on. Since PASCAL is more demanding on this as other programs such as C++, and due to its simplicity in language and variable understanding, it is recommended to begin with it for VISUAL BASIC will have done a lot of things for you, leaving you somehow illiterate on how you program actually works!
Another basic advantage PASCAL has over VISUAL BASIC especially for the beginner is its available help. VISUAL BASIC that comes with the VISIUAL STUDIO software is rather big, taking a lot of space, and to access the help you need to have MSDN installed in your computer. Though PASCAL is small in size (does not occupy a lot of disk space and memory when running), it comes with the help and user guide always available in the compiler. So, if you want to begin learning a computer programming language using your personal computer at home, I would advice that you start by learning PASCAL, then you learn C++, then you can master JAVA among other complex programming languages.
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- Many people are interested in acquiring skills on how to develop specific software.
- •People go to schools and maybe start learning from very complex or simple programming languages
- A good start for a computer language is learning PASCAL
6 Comments
Post a CommentPascal is Like Disco Music - Dead, The best one to Learn and widely used In C, Once that is undestood you can easil;y Move on to the Next C apps (Turbo C, C+ C++) and then Java ans SQL. If You use DOS well then Sick with a Dbase and a Pascal and / or Basic.
Pascal is a horrible language to learn. I quickly came to despise it in my one encounter with it in a parallel programming class.
One of the challenges of Pascal is syntax--thus, perhaps a better beginning language to learn would by a language without syntax! Such as Scheme...
One person describes her experiences with BASIC and Pascal here: http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html
Hmm, i have found a great-so-far tutorial on Pascal, but I'm not sure if i should go with Turbo C. I Will Check them both out - Murder
as an IT student and a programming practitioner, i suggest that the best language to start computer programming is Turbo C. As I begin learning Turbo C, it is now easy to interact to other languages like Java and Visual Basic. That is in my case. -linox-
I would recommend QuickBASIC 4.5 to start with. It is fairly easy to learn and can create executables. However, be aware that screen modes other than zero (default) won't work in Windows XP.
The reason people dont use pascal as a starter language is it is a dead language being that it isnt used in any programs any longer. I learned PASCAL in 1996 in high school its old, out dated, and not useful, not even as a learning basis...at least in my opinion.