Learning Programming Languages

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Hello,<br /><br />I first started programming back in late 2003. My first language that I have ever learned was C++. Of course with learning such a complex programming language, with no programming background, and little mathematical background made it really, really hard. Back then you might say I didn閳ユ獩 know much about programming, and little about computers in general. It was some of my friends who got me into C++ (we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into). They all gave up within a week, but I kept learning. There was something about it that I couldn閳ユ獩 stop. Slowly I started to learn the concepts and it wasn閳ユ獩 all that hard to learn new concepts.<br />After about a year, I was really getting a hang of C++, I dived myself into Win32 and MFC. Now it wasn閳ユ獩 like I had not had experience programming and it wasn閳ユ獩 all that hard. Of course the new concepts (especially event driven programming), was very nice and a little hard. Not too long ago I started DirectX, thinking I wanted to program games. Well my heart isn閳ユ獩 really into it and I gave up.<br /><br />Now I started learning a .NET language ( C# ). I a few people told me it was really easy, fast, and fun to learn. Keep in mind the only programming language I know is C++, have never learned anything else. Well I can edit HTML, but that閳ユ獨 not really programming, and anyone can edit HTML.<br /><br />It閳ユ獨 been about a week since I started C#. And I am surprised to see how fast I am learning this language. I閳ユ獫e covered most of the basics in 1 week, where as similar basics in C++ took me months. It is just blowing my mind away how fast I閳ユ獫e learned them. I閳ユ獫e never before tried any other language, mainly because I was afraid the learning curve would be as steep as the one of C++. Now that I閳ユ獫e tried and seen how wrong I was thinking about not learning another language, I閳ユ獡 planning on learning as many languages I can in the future. Of course learning them well, and perfecting myself in all of the language, and keep practicing the once I閳ユ獫e already learned to keep them fresh in my head.<br /><br /><br />How did you guys got into programming? Did you start with an easy language such as HTML and then take on harder languages, or just dived into a hard and complex language like me?<br />Do you feel the same way about learning a new language (The more languages you learn the easier it becomes)?<br /><br /><span class='edit'>This post has been edited by <b>Mrafcho001</b>: 16 Feb, 2006 - 07:02 PM</span>
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