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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe
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I think this would be a fantastic place to start. There are free "Express Editions" of VB.Net and C# (and a couple of others I think like ASP.Net), and they have a nice video tutorial section which really helped me get a very early feel for C#.
At work about a year back, we were kind of pressured into learning Java (and they werent springing for any kind of training), and I honestly didnt really like it much. For some reason I just could not get comfortable with it (we normally use VB, Visual Foxpro, and do some Oracle database programming). Once that whole idea went down the tubes here at work (they decided not to use it for now), I took a look at C# and was having alot of fun with it. C# is probably 70% like Java, 10% like VB (Visual Basic), 10% like C++, and 10% new stuff.
C++ is a very complicated and intimidating language for someone that has never programmed at all before. If he can wrap his head around that, then congratulations, because he would be well on his way to his dream.
I would personally go with VB.Net or C#, if anything just to learn and get comfortable with the idea of object oriented programming, before moving on