Leaerning languages

[DTD sIckNesS]

Hi all, I'm doing NC computing and going on to HND then prolly a degree. I just wondered at what stage you start learning all these languages. I think in NC you learn TurboPascal which is the basis for visual basic, and HNC/HND you do C and/or C++. but i was wondering when/if you do PHP, ASP, JAVA, javascript and all the other ones with scary names.

Eeeep! ;(

[DTD sIckNesS]

then perhaps i can learn the english language enabling me to spell learning correctly

[Threepwood]

i doubt any course offers tuition in ASP/PHP seeing as its server side and mainly for web use.....
you may be taught Java as your OO language at uni instead of C++.
At stafford they taught us Java in one semester and C in the next...and C++ and Java in 2nd year... tho i left there for queens and we do Java as our main language, not sure we get any C++ "training" here. :(

Until you start a degree your programming language foundation will be based around the less commonly used languages such as Pascal, Cobol etc....

[DTD sIckNesS]

okies, thx for da response :D

[Brocken]

You can pick up PHP quite quickly so I've heard, and you can just get a book or two on it or look up some web tutorials....

[[TvR] -=CyRuS=-]

In second year HND, or third year Degree u do ya projects on anything u want. So u can learn it like that and get marks for it..
But I just finished first half of 3rd year Comp Science degree and u wont find anyting like asp/php on the sylabus.
But once u looked at C/C++, java, VB, SQL etc. Things like asp/php are a walk in the park.. :)

[[XTC]Orion]

Hi ,

I did 5 years at college and started with Basic at school then moved on thru :-

Pascal
ADA
Cobol
Db4
Asembler
C
C++

Then started working as a C++ programer and learned :-

VC++
MFC
HTML/DHTML
Javascript/VbScript
COM
ActiveX
SQL

not done any ASP or PHP

[Brocken]

and what do you do in your 2 minutes of spare time?

[dirtymb]

i go to stafford uni.
the hnd'ers do VB, i dont think they do much else.

i did the same course as the dude who left for queens
learning java c,sql, c++ and there are modules in the final year to do asp and all that stuff.

mind, i am finding c++ a little confusing due to stupid c terminology.
learn c++ from the off, and forget about c
get learn c++ in 21 days, takes longer than 21 days but it helps. although I dont like programming that much. sql wasnt bad, but i prefer tech support and ripping the guts out of pc's anyday

[[XTC]Orion]

Originally posted by Brocken
and what do you do in your 2 minutes of spare time?

play Quake 2 and drink copious amounts of stella : )