Question: Which language should I start with?

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Answer #1:

PHP. As a web designer it will be of most use to you. From there you can move in to other languages and software development.

Answer #2:

try c, then after that you can go to C++/and java the more you know about C++ and Java the more money you will make

Answer #3:

Out of your three options choose PHP. But you might want to try looking at C#, in my opinion it is becoming more valuable.

Answer #4:

If you have no personal preference, then the answer depends on what language you think you can get a job doing, what language would be the most versatile, and the tools and platform available to you. Of your 3 choices, my personal preference would be for Java because it is a good 'academic' language and will give you the confidence to learn any other language. Otherwise, I would suggest RoR since it is currently a popular language and will improve your market value.

Answer #5:

For a web designer PHP seems to make the most sense. Its the most widely used and most practical.

Answer #6:

I would vote Ruby on Rails all the way on this one. The community is growing very fast. I do work as a Ruby on Rails programmer full-time, and I had learned many other languages first, but Rails jobs are popping up everywhere right now.

Us people in the rails community are very helpful. :)

I will help you with any question you have.

I am biased because I use Ruby on Rails now every day. often 10+ hours a day :) But I know Php, and Java very well also. Ruby on Rails your code can be more compact and easier to write. I read on Article in Dr Dobbs that said one company that used RoR wrote the same program in RoR and Java, and the Java one was 4 months of development, to do the same thing in Ruby was 4 nights, in only 20% the amount of lines of code. And it ran faster. Remember he is a professional Java coder, not Ruby.

"Tate says it shook him to his Java-loving core when the Rails rewrite took four nights of coding compared to four months for the Java build, then outperformed the Java version while weighing in at about a fifth the number of lines of code."
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When I started my job they said, do you think you can learn Ruby and RoR in 5 days. I said sure, I am a fast learner. I learned them in 3 days (8 hours a day). But since it is so easy to learn you can dive right in on many smaller projects, and use that experience to work on larger ones.

You will want to get the book "Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails"
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And after you are good at it let me know we are hiring good coders :)





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