wondering...

[Fuzzylogic]

I'm wondering whats the EASIEST programing laugange to learn. I'm not asking for which is the best langauge, or what ppl reckon is the worst/best, i'm looking for a language which is easy to learn. It would be alot of help if ppl would also point to some resources and programs to get me started. Thanks
Fuzzylogic

[CareBear]

my vote would be for ASP... it's a lot more consistent then PHP where you have to check which of the dozens versions the host has installed and what all they have turned on and off.
There's a lot more tutorials and well written articles for ASP around as opposed to PHP and in my opinion the documentation and references is a whole lot better as well.

[kabatak]

i would say php is easier. when i know nothing about programming, i tried to read about PERL,ASP,PHP. I tried some tutorials for all of them and I found php is so easy to learn. i dunno for others but you can learn php even if you dont know nothing about programming yet. :)

[Canuckkev]

I myself have never glanced at ASP code, so cannot comment on it, but PHP is very easy. What you do is just add some php tags to an HTML document, and you have a dynamic website. Perl requires you to print all lines of HTML, making it somewhat more difficult to implement for the web than PHP.

As for tutorials, I don't know of any (other than the ones on google...). But...if you find one basic one that covers a bunch of stuff, that should be enough. From then on, just use http://php.net to search for any help with a specific function.

[Cagez]

WebmasterBase (http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/885/25)
PHP is a server-side scripting language. ASP.NET is an object-oriented framework for Web application development. By its very nature, PHP is better suited to small-to-medium Web scripting tasks, while ASP.NET is better suited to enterprise-level Web applications.

That said, if you know and are comfortable with PHP, and it's able to consistently meet your needs, then you need not worry about ASP.NET.

I'd go for PHP, thats just because 1. Im on a Linux server and 2. I already know it. If I was on a Windows server, it'd be different, I'd be "forced" to learn ASP.

[kabatak]

php also works on windows but not w/ flat file database