Choosing Programming Language

[Macatone]

Typically, one programming language isn't "better" than another, in the respect that they are sometimes used for different things. Thus, you will have to decide for yourself which to learn based on what you want. If you want portability and versatility, then I think that Java is the way to go. If you want speed and power, I think that C++ is the way to go. Java can run on virtually any operating system; this is because it runs on a virtual machine. Because it runs on a virtual machine, it typically runs slower than other programming languages. However, this might not matter to a lot of people because they might not need that extra speed because the software that they write doesn’t need it. For example: you probably wouldn’t want to write a video editing application in Java because this type of application requires a lot of speed and power. But if you wanted to write a word processor, it would be fine to write something like that in Java because it doesn’t require a lot of processing power.

To answer your original question, I would recommend that you learn Java. It is a really popular programming language, and there are a lot of people on this forum that can help you with it. Also, there are currently more jobs for Java than C++.