Picking a programing languages to learn

NeVeR

I've been doing websites/graphic design for a while and wanted to move from that into programming (hobby not job)

I've got a couple of questions.

What is the most new and most used programming language?

I also go some 3D design and am big into gaming. What code would one use in game design

I know i'll never make a game but it's more out of interest then anything

thanks.

Anima

Suppose Java or C# would be some of the newer languages that are widely used, they're both very similar.

For games, its going to be C++ (maybe C sometimes) because its faster than the above languages. 3D game engines are quite complicated and its more than just knowing to program. Theres lots of maths involved and algorithms etc.

Civilian_Target

NeVeR wrote: »

I've been doing websites/graphic design for a while and wanted to move from that into programming (hobby not job)

I've got a couple of questions.

What is the most new and most used programming language?

I also go some 3D design and am big into gaming. What code would one use in game design

I know i'll never make a game but it's more out of interest then anything

thanks.

New programming languages are coming out all the time - but the two most used programming languages are C++ and Java.

For gaming, while the base engines are generally written in C++, more commonly when adding to an existing game engine, they will provide a sandboxed language such as Python for your changes.. although others simply provide libraries to C++.

Hobby languages that are useful for general development (thinking web and gaming here), Python's almost certainly your best bet. Ruby would also be a good choice for web dev, but less so for games. More conventional choices for web dev would be PHP and for gaming C++, but neither of them are such suitable general purpose languages.

Ross

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