Visual Basic and C++?

wich one of these Visual Basic 6.0 or Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is better for a beginner and why. And which one of these is widely use by today's game programmers.

Visual Basic and C++?
I agree, C++ is one of the most difficult languages to master. On the other hand, once you get even decent with C++, everything else is a joke.





If you are just starting to learn how to program, the goal is to first learn good structural program, which you can do in any language. I always recommend people just start with JavaScript (not Java) since they have everything they need to get started (no need to buy anything). You can learn the concepts of structured program and even OO using JavaScript. You can create GUIs in combination with HTML, CSS, and DOM (what unfortunately is referred to as DHTML).





Good JS programmers can even make games. You can even do simple network programming using JavaScript. What more could you ask for...
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if you are just getting into programming i would recommend VB6, c++ is too complicated for beginner i tried starting with c++ as my first language but after a month i lost hope.





Also a brilliant language to learn as a beginner is python www.python.org





This just my opinion but I think python is the best choice
Reply:if you are a true begginer and you want to enter the game programming world... possibly it would be better to use c++, reason, because although VB is even more widely used, it has not much graphics capabilities, VB is more for administrative tasks, also VBA whichis a subset of VB is the macro languaje for microsoft office, but still, no animation capabilities included...





also, if you really get to know how to program in C++, you willbe able to learn anything...





another option is ActionScript from macromedia flash, that is what programmers use for flash Games... I would probably start with that...
Reply:C++ and learn DirectX or OpenGL