As xboxrulz said, start with basic. thats what I did and it has given me a great understanding of programing. From there you can work with many different languages. But it can be hard to change languages sometimes, so make a choice that you are going to stick with for a while! good luck -jimmy

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Starting with Basic is quite a good idea, even starting with Pascal can be quite normal, I think that usually learning any language can be quite good, firstly you need to understand the basic things in programming and how everything works, due to usually people don't understand who doesn't know programming how everything can work with only True and False, 1 and 0.. I started with aRexx, Pascal and got into PHP later on and I really can tell you that it is quite easy to adopt to any language, all I need is to learn the syntax, so usually I just need a tutorial to start with and later some manual or any other documentation or even a reference.

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Yeah learning even the fundamentals of a more complete language like any of the Pascal/C variants will make things a lot easier to hop and skip around. Because most languages of all types will use a fair bit from others (even the basic things like variables and there types, in-built routines, conditional statement, case/switch statements, for/while loops etc).

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I've learned PHP and I want to get into something more Object Oreintated would i be able to tackle java

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Not sure about Java, Object Pascal, VB and C++ are OOP.

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