Trying to learn programming

>>59252152
All i can tell you is that Visual Basic is a complete fucking tumor.
It is useless by itself and doesn't resemble any other programming language i know of so it's not like it's easy to transition from.
Atleast python is a nice language for scripting and has some machine learning applications. Visual Basic just fucking hurts.

>>59252152

>I'm kind of liking the idea of working with databases and (big) data.

he adjusts his preferences based on incomplete knowledge from the past

never going to make it tbqh.

How about you learn the basics first?! With the new knowledge in your brain you might end up liking other things because you didnt know them before?!!

In short .. do CS50 start with the basics then go from there. GL - you will need it with your tunnel vision attitude.

>>59252152
you need to learn programming more than you need to learn a language.

If you want to work with big databases, it really depends on what level. Ruby is a common language in web development, but on a rather high level (eg. it builds on a lot of other stuff, and the code is quite verbose and easy to understand).

If you're talking NSA-level big data then it's probably C, or at least C++. But it's not really a great language to learn programming because 99% of the time you'll be spending on stuff that is redundant like garbage collecting, pointers etc.

>>59252286
From VB, you can easily transition to C#; syntax is different, but the functional structure is the same, plus both use the same .NET classes.

From C# then to either Java or PowerShell. After 20 years, I would just use PowerShell to do most tasks on the MS platform, as you get all of the .NET classes without having to compile anything + total support for the big 3 public clouds