And I stated the facts. Microsoft products are the least used in program development. Strictly for Windows they might be but not anywhere else and not everyone coding for Windows uses it.
Visual studio is an IDE, not a language. I think it is true that among C++ compilers/IDEs, Visual Studios is the most used (or very close to that).
c++=! success or a good first language. C# on the other hand is a very good language to learn! I would suggest that you head over to xna (google it) and work through the tutorials there. That way you can start to learn c# as well as learning how to make some cool games! P.s i am also 17 so my viewpoint is pretty much the same as you! Need to watch Social Network though as i heard it was really good!
i've been using C++ for about 6 years, 2 years ago i decided to build some websites in PHP, it took me 1 month to gain good experience and build the first website (fully- php,mysql..) , since then i haven't been working with C++ much, PHP pays off more if you work for yourself coding in C# or Java is not a problem, its all the same with some tiny changes. IMO having your own network of websites even if they are not unique can make you a fortune, but working for someone is limitation of your development, throwing your brain for someone else. i doubt that someone can really say "i know PHP", instead people should say "i know the basics of PHP". PHP is not easy like others say, its just that most of the people don't work in complex projects. one of the best places to start PHP - tizag.com
Yeah, those two languages look very similar. You can make just as much, or even more, if you code your own unique software which is good enough to sell for $$$. Let's say you made the next big integrated development environment or graphics program. You could get hundreds of dollars per license. I guess you would have to have a website for it but you could probably use some e-commerce script someone else already wrote. It is pretty easy as programming goes. If you were to code two programs with the same features in PHP and JSP/Java EE then the Java version would be better but would take longer to create. The reason for that is that Java is technically a faster language (there is data to prove that off of google), however the java code would take longer to code because Java enforced stricter standards and requires a bit of extra code to work around the typing system (casting and so forth). Agreed.
Sure, however i don't think the next big IDE is something that the OP should go for, that would take him more time. Depends what are you creating. it is people who don't want to create something bigger. PHP can be complex, yet i had to join such project to understand that PHP can be taken really high.
Yeah. My main grievances with it, though, is it's a bit informal. It's difficult to write OOP when you can't ensure that a certain data type is being provided to a function and can't use function overloading. Usually when I code HP I have to pretend I'm coding a more strict language, TBH, to make sure that I don't botch everything up (which PHP encourages you to do naturally). However, any programming language can be used to write something complex I guess.