What lang(s) to learn?

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From: Mark Kanter
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:00

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I'm looking for a career change and want to learn programming.  I have a
little experience programming in Access v1.  I'm reading The Visual Guide
to Visual Basic for v2.  (Is v2 much different from the latest version?)

From the research I've done it seems the best paying jobs come from knowing
Visual Basic along with another language such as C, C++, or Java.  Do you
agree?

I would also appreciate anyone's thoughts as to:

 1)  what languages you think I should learn and why?

 2)  how long it took you to learn them (if you did)?

 3)  how did you learn them?

 4)  how do you think I should go about learning them?

Your input would be a great help.
Thanks
Mark

my email is: kanters @mail.webspan.net

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From: "Mark Kanter" <Kanters@mail.webspan.net>
Subject: What lang(s) to learn?
Date: 1997/03/06
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