Right now I know nothing about programming languages, and would like to
learn more in this area to help develop my computer programming skills for a possible career, or just for the experience. A conference I'm considering attending will have a 1-day workshop on Visual Basic. How useful would learning this scripting be, vs. say writing cgi or Java (which I've understood is more flexible in its potential
applications). Does anyone have any advice or opinions on this?
In other words, which one would be better to learn? What about learning both? Is it better to learn VB and THEN Java?
Thanks!!