Subj : Re: Four Programming Questions To : comp.programming From : Casey Hawthorne Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 05:44 pm As others have said your questions are to general! "W. D. Allen Sr." wrote: >Question one: Which language (basic, C++, java, etc) is easiest for learning >computer programming? Background: grade school? high school? some college? math level? Python? Possibly Ruby, but it is a bit Perl like. For learning the ideas of computer science try Scheme - simple syntax so students can get into more advanced topics quite early on in a 1 or 2 semester course! Although Python syntax is also fairly clean. >Question Two: Which language is best for scientific programming? Java is multi-platform and I believe the Java numeric's group is working on creating a matrix standard plus other math oriented optimizations. Fortran? Learning scientific programming is different than actual scientific programming where one is usually handling huge^3 data sets. >Question Three: Which language is best for web programming? Connecting to a database? PHP, Python Server Side? ..Net JSP Spring? Struts? Graphics? Flash Java >Question Four: Which language is best for games programming? Strategy? First person shooter? 3D engines? Note: There is a difference in the following: - development speed, compilation speed and running speed! - expressiveness! -- even though all languages are Turing equivalent - ease of finding bugs and fixing bugs! > >Looking forward to answers based on experience. > >WDA > >ballensr@adelphia.net > >end > > -- Regards, Casey .