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Old 11-07-2008, 08:02 AM
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Hi all,

A few colleagues of mine have recommended to start learning VBA, C/C++ and Java to a decent level.

Are they hard to learn for someone who is fairly computer literate but never learnt programming before?

Sorry in advance if this is a trivial question for you IT bods!

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Why have they recommend that you learn these languages?

VBA is purely an old Microsoft Office automation language - it's recommended to use C# now for those tasks afaik, so I can't see a benefit in learning that unless you want to make some special macros in Excel or Word.

C++ is left to the realm of some financial services (although they are moving away from that) and games programmers for being the most optimisable language speed wise (but it's trickier to learn than Java/C#).

Java could be useful... as could C# as recommended above (90% of developer demand right now is in those languages). OK, I'm generalising here, but the real question is....

What do you intend to do with this knowledge?
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Why have they recommend that you learn these languages?

VBA is purely an old Microsoft Office automation language - it's recommended to use C# now for those tasks afaik, so I can't see a benefit in learning that unless you want to make some special macros in Excel or Word.

C++ is left to the realm of some financial services (although they are moving away from that) and games programmers for being the most optimisable language speed wise (but it's trickier to learn than Java/C#).

Java could be useful... as could C# as recommended above (90% of developer demand right now is in those languages). OK, I'm generalising here, but the real question is....

What do you intend to do with this knowledge?


For Front Office work i.e. financial services as you said above. Risk management models etc.
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If you specifically want to do Windows programming as random says C++ is being used less in favour of C# these days as C# development is much faster and less buggy as it's managed code.

It's tougher to learn C/C++ but you'll be forced to understand how computer programs really work on the inside. Java/VBA/C# are higher level - with C you can almost taste the chips! It should be pretty easy to move from C++ to C#, plus the C syntax is identical to Javascript and very close to PHP so there are lots of benefits to learning it.

If you've never programmed before, I'd probably start with C, then learn the basics of C++ OOP, then go directly to C#.
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C++ is used by some financial services on their back ends because you can make it run very quickly and so handle very high volumes of transactions... I wouldn't think you will need to be doing that.

If you're mostly interested in Office automation then C# would be good (if you're on Office 2003 and beyond), but if you want to create your own basic Windows applications then either C# or Java are fine. My personal preference is C# because the APIs are better structured, but either is fine.
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C++ is used by some financial services on their back ends because you can make it run very quickly and so handle very high volumes of transactions... I wouldn't think you will need to be doing that.


Lots of firms like traders to be able to use one of Java, C/C++ or VBA, which is why I'm trying to get some feedback from you guys.

Is the general consensus to start off with C?
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This might help you out if you start some C - there's a downloadable PDF of the original C reference manual by Kernighan + Ritchie.

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Lots of firms like traders to be able to use one of Java, C/C++ or VBA, which is why I'm trying to get some feedback from you guys.

Is the general consensus to start off with C?


I'd start with Java personally.
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