What programming language should I start learning first and why?
>>51822144
How rich are you talking?
Not living to paycheck to paycheck, or wondering if you should take the Ferrari or Lamborghini out tonight
>>51822144
assembly.
>>51822144
Cobol
http://mobile.geek.com/latest/258390-nasa-seeks-programmer-fluent-in-60-year-old-languages-to-work-on-voyager
Haskell.
>>51822155
The second one
>>51822144
C++ so you can learn to make apps like Angry Birds.
>>51822144
Haskell.
>>51822304
gonna need a lot more than knowledge of a programming language for that one, there, buck-o. willin to wager you wont even achieve the first one.
>>51822304
For that. It's more you have to come up with an idea no one has yet.
I've heard a lot of tech millionaires out there came up with an idea then learned coding after the fact.
>>51822304
ruby on rails
Most of these suggestions are bad besides >>51822330
>>51822144
MBA
Binary for maximum efficiency.
Seriously though, I started with java. Its a bit harder to start off with but was you get the hang of it its easy.
>>51822144
Learn to program people.
>>51822144
Machine code
>>51822415
>I've heard a lot of tech millionaires out there came up with an idea then learned coding after the fact.
Lol wut?
Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, and the google Jews were already mathematicians/computer scientists who were programming since they were children.
>>51823322
You think they're the only people who became millionaires in the tech industry lol?
There's thousands of them out there kiddo
Go back to the kids table and let the adults talk not
> learn JS
> create webapp that goes viral
> accept an offer to sell it to major tech company for a ton of monnies
>>51822144
Chinese.