On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe <denn...@li3-188.members.linode.com> wrote: > I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this. > > A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer > course in programming. His goal is to become a business applications > programmer. > > He asked me what language he should start with. I'd guess the prgramming > landscape is changing with more services going into the cloud. >
According to some of the recent studies from the IEEE Computer Society I've read, Java is still king of business application development (.NET also ranks highly). So, for that specific goal I would recommend Java, for its market utility as well as the fact that its a nice sandbox'd and very object oriented language. I'd ask what sort of company he would like to work for though, as well-established companies tend to go with languages and technologies made by well-established companies and/or stuff from the 70s. Smaller companies, startups, consulting shops, etc. tend to lean more towards PHP, Ruby, etc. -- david [.dh] huerta haystackproject.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
