What languages are new programmer friendly? My friend is a game designer who knows very little about programming but wants to program his old stuff. What is a good language to start him off in. Also what language should he finally aim for?
+1
A:
Again a "It depends" answer, but maybe this StackExchange resource helps.
Henrik P. Hessel
2010-09-28 17:30:01
This has been asked many times before and continues to be closed regularly. Thanks for pointing to a resource on SE.
wheaties
2010-09-28 17:33:56
+2
A:
Python is a popular language for first time programmers, and features a popular platform for creating games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygame
Your friend will probably want to learn C++ at some point though.
Zachary
2010-09-28 17:30:37
+1 Starting with Python and seeing how his concepts translate into high level code etc. and therefore learning the basics is a good approach to get started quickly. He can start worrying about memory allocation and pointers at a later stage, when he actually **knows** how his concepts work in code.
Ivo Wetzel
2010-09-28 17:36:46
+1
A:
C# and Delphi...I saw many new programmers comfortable with these tow languages.
M.H
2010-09-28 17:37:24
I was about to nerd rage on you for calling them 'toy' languages. Then I read it again.. :p
JulianR
2010-09-28 18:15:26
My first programming language was delphi and i don't regret it.It's not too hard to learn, really intuitive, has a very clean syntax and a great community.
ipsum
2010-09-28 18:37:19