Programming Language

Well assuming your looking to get into web dev I would take a look at Ruby on Rails - its a beautiful framework designed for the web and is becoming very popular for good reason.

I mainly use PHP with Codeigniter because it's what I know and I can build things quickly in it but I want to learn Ruby when I get a chance and if I was starting out now I would probably go straight to ROR. Still, I believe PHP with a decent MVC framework isn't a bad choice and would be quicker to learn than ROR.

Learning how to program won't necessarily mean you make more money, and it's certainly not essential, I still make most money from some really simple Wordpress sites. But I've started thinking a lot "bigger" since being able to write code. If your struggling to make money then your probably spreading your efforts to thinly and not persisting enough. IM is competitive and you need to stick it out, you can't build a sustainable income overnight. Perhaps learning how to program through building a site would encourage you to do just that and stick with one thing for longer since you've put so much effort in to it.

Ideas: Review site, coupon site, deal aggregator..

kokoloko75 said:

I would say Delphi, really powerful.
I do not recommend to learn .NET/C#, this language is too unstable.
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What exactly do you find "unstable"? I think it is a great platform for a beginner: first it is easy and 2. it is backed by a huge corporation whith a massive helping community and libraries for pretty much any task you can think of.

First actual programming language I learnt was C++, but I use C# for making money. Mostly through automation of some sort.

First programming language I learned was 68xxx Assmbly language, and I made money with it, by programming computer games in the 80's
After that, I started with C/C++ and ended up with Delphi/Pascal, and still, every programming language brought me money so far

cash202 said:

Assembly language for Z80 processor. Doesn't help to make money but sharpens
you brain like no other shit out there.

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I second that

Learn some script language like PHP or Python, it will come handy if you want to make dynamic sites, automate tasks, scrape content, hack Wordpress. PHP and Python are both pretty easy to learn.
Now, when i'm dealing with server side scripting i use PHP, for desktop automating and scraping i use Python, and when i need GUI i use IronPython (Python with .NET framework).

Victoria Seo said:

Learn Asp.net first
Asp.net programmers earn much and there is a huge demand for them, so you wouldn't regret. But for SEO there's no need to learn prgramming language- I know only basic htm and I earn with SEO - so decide waht you need fist)

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I have yet to see ONE website written in asp.net that works properly in a browser that is not IE.

Either most of the asp.net programmers are amateurs, or its blatantly sucks.

lancis said:

I have yet to see ONE website written in asp.net that works properly in a browser that is not IE.

Either most of the asp.net programmers are amateurs, or its blatantly sucks.

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let me help you so you can see some. microsofts msdn site, codeproject dot com

I am learning C++ but I think it will be a while before I learn how to program GUI and such advanced matters. I am going to check into Delphi because it has some suggestions here.

JavaScript, not really a programming language but helped me to make 300$. :typing:

because you are already making money on sharing files and images, you can expand the operation by learning web automation. then it becomes realistic to earn a lot more than you are doing now. And you already know that sharing files makes you some money. That makes everything more predictable.

you can the automate uploading of files, making previews, auto posting to forums. all from a vps server.

Most people start out web automation by learning php/curl. curl is a library for web automation

I have been doing a lot of automation with bash/curl, which can do the same thing as php/curl

and if curl doesn't work, you can always use perl/lwp (library for www in perl).
there is also a curl extension for perl.

the lwp library is closer to a browser in the way it works, and can do any operation that a browser does. The curl library is the most popular and well known. it can't do everything, but almost everything. the problem with curl can be variables that are set in a "hidden" way (when you can't even find the variables in the source code). Those kinds of operations are difficult to reproduce.