Basic languages required

My opinion is whatever language you opt it not a big issue. But the thing is we need to know the basic principles of programming and depth knowledge about the basic concepts like storage and other things which is common for all the languages. Knowing these concepts enable us to learn any languages easily and we can excell in any programming environment.

VB is very simple but is proprietary! I think the must are C, whom sintax is the base for all known programming languages, and an Object Oriented language like java or c++

I like open source,So Java is my favorite programing language,Java,JSP,EJB,servlet,PHP,c,html or my favorite

i feel that basics in oops would be necessary for any progrramer...java and c++

I recomend vb as the best platform to begin programming. as very little programming can produce wonderfull results, with cool GUI. This can be very encouraging for newbies.

i think you should learn a basic language,if you don't use it every day,i suggest you learn vb,it 's easy to learn.if you wang to develop in internet,i suggest you to learn java .if you wang to develop sofware,i suggest you to learn vc or deliphy