Programming Languages - What Different Programing Languages Do
What is a programming language? I'd say it was a computer language you could use to make a computer do a series of actions. This is why HTML, for example, ISN'T a programming language, since it just specifies how text and images should be displayed on a website. Let's suppose, for example, that we want to display a message on screen (a basic command in most languages). Here's how you would do it in various languages, with notes on where you would use the languages and their strengths and weaknesses. Visual Basic and Visual C# In Visual Basic Training the command to display a message on screen is: MessageBox.Show("Wise Owl says tu-whit!") In Visual C# it's more or less the same (you'd just stick a semi-colon onto the end of the line). VB and C# (as they're often called familiarly) are used as the two main languages within Microsoft applications, and particularly within.NET programs such as ASP.NET. So the next time that you visit a website and s...