Programming Languages (Coding)

[Nadnoud]

Questions to all computer scientists/computer engineers/ developpers/programmers/etc...(newbies and pros):

which languages have you learned in college?
which ones have you learned on your own?
which ones do you use at work?

share this and give us your opinion about them, the best ones, the most used on the market, in businesses...the easiest to implement, etc...

just say all what you have about coding languages, based on your experience or your researches...

Cheers!

[Osiris]

The first language we learned at college was Java, I remember well, it was the Math 200 course. Learning Java was the time period that really opened my eyes to coding. Everything else was relatively easy after that.

Once you know how to think at the machine level and once you get the logic behind programming, you can learn any programming language you want. I learned HTML, PHP, Visual Basic.NET, ASP by myself. In terms of "tutorials", nothing better than a good text book.

If you are interested in Web development, you need to learn PHP, ASP and some scripting. For application development, you need C, C#, C++, Java..

[Orange Room]

Depends on ur needs, its not about the number of languages u know, its about acquiring the logic, like osiris said if u have good logic and good alogorythm structure u can learn any language u want.

During university i leanred many languages Java, Vb, delphi, php,asp, html

for my work since i work in the field of web, i use mostly php, i see it as the top web programming language. For desktop programs u can always have a mix of java with sql and VB

[Tartaruga]

at college I learned C, and now C++, and next year i'll be learning some Java and Visual Basic .NET (i'm an engineer student)

on my own, and part of my "stage", I learned html code (which is the easiest code ever), the essentials of C#, and now learning ASP.NET using C#, and some of SQL

I must say that C# is in the lead now, and if anyone has to choose between C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, or C#, i'll definitely advise him to go for C#, it's the newest, the best, and the more used nowadays...

[JulesK]

I just finished the C++ course at university and i'm happy to say that mech ra7 arreb sawbo ba2a

Such a pain these courses!!!

How can you deal with all the functions and memorize them all???

[SeekNirvana]

Originally Posted by Nadnoud

which languages have you learned in college?
which ones have you learned on your own?
which ones do you use at work?

School: C, Java, Assembly, Prolog (yea we had a course about that).
As Osiris suggested, once you learn the paradigm, it's easy to learn new languages.

Nowadays, with the free online tutorials widely accessible, it's even easier to learn those languages.

Everything related to web development is yet to be taught at schools. However, I'm referring mostly to the "old" web ...pretty much the markup languages (HTML, DHTML) and the PHP, ASP, etc.. With the new web, things have changed drastically, and with web services, JSP/Servlets Java is used as a web programming language too. Same goes for C# (including C and C++) along with the .NET technology.

In the near future, we should see university courses targeting the topic of web services more specifically. Looking at the job market, this gives us the same impression. J2EE and .NET experts are now on high demand in the industry.

P.S. feels good to drift away of that poli. forum

[mephisto794]

4 years at the university doing Business Computing.... the business side was a bit neglected, since we were doing "computing", as the computer courses mainly focused on "what's a keyboard.. duuuh.... what's a mouse..... eeuuuuuuh.... what's the difference between a laser printer and an Inkjet ..."

I think you already guessed i was at the lebanese university...
to be fair, we had some good courses (and [EVIL]curses[/EVIL]) of database structure, SQL and algorithmique.

I later worked for an ORACLE developing company, so I had to learn PL/SQL and Oracle reports (and a little of DBA).

I am now working on developping some Access/VBA database for internal office use. Quite simple, yet very valuable programs.

[NASR_MIN_ALLAH]

i hate programing.
networking and database rule!

[sayo9394]

Originally Posted by NASR_MIN_ALLAH

i hate programing.
networking and database rule!

ewwwwwwwwww,,, i hate networking ...

well at uni they taught us (actually it's more like used) java, c/c++, ada, vhdl, assembly, scripting, mysql, JSP, matlab, PSPICE ... (did computer and telecom engineering at sydney uni)

i taught myself ASP, ASP.NET, VB, VBScript, JavaScript, NSIS(installer Language), AutoIT (scripting and automating scenarios)

at work, i use mostly c/c++, matlab, and assembly... (most of my work is DSP)

I am what you call a "Jack of all trades, master of none" as in i've used many programming languages depending on projects and uses... but haven't specialised or mastered a specific language.

[aboulzouz]

OK let's start:
University:
- Turbo Pascal that was a basis of programming paradigms
when I was doing my studies. Some start with Pascal to know the
main principles.
- C also very important I use it the most.
- Java.
- Assembly
- SQL, PHP, JSP, HTML (and all the crew)

I was able to learn alone C++/tcl/Otcl, perl, python bash scripting, matlab...

Well in my work I mainly use C, since it is easy to implement (I got used to it)
when implementing my mathematical formulas....
Perl is also quite efficient when I parse some traces and data file to do some
statistics.