Any Coding Program Simpler than Visual Basic?

[JonSea31]

I am wondering if there is any free program I could download that allows coding to be easier and more efficient than Visual Basic?

If so, what program do you recommend?

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[dilettante]

It is hard to figure out what you mean by "efficient" and probably doubly so if you aren't a programmer since you may well mean the word in something other than the accepted sense. E.g. maybe to you "efficient" means "ability whang something together with a few mouse clicks" - like the Lego version of programming.

But if you're starting from Square Zero you might consider a popular .Net Basic: Small Basic

[koolsid]

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From "Easier" perspective, I have never seen anything more easier than visual basic. The code looks a lot like English Language. VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language which evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

From "Efficiency" perspective, yes Visual Basic is pretty efficient. Like dilettante, I am not sure what is your definition of "efficiency".

From the "Free" perspective, you can always start with Visual Basic Express which is free.

[akhileshbc]

If you are onto creating games, then try Game Maker. It's pretty simple to create a game using that.

[FunkyDexter]

You could check out ThEiMp's code generation tool which can be downloaded from the chitchat section. I wouldn't recommend it though.

[Zeuz]

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From "Easier" perspective, I have never seen anything more easier than visual basic. The code looks a lot like English Language. VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language which evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

From "Efficiency" perspective, yes Visual Basic is pretty efficient. Like dilettante, I am not sure what is your definition of "efficiency".

From the "Free" perspective, you can always start with Visual Basic Express which is free.

This one. I'm same mind with this. I've never seen a that easy programming language. I don't mean that I'm a master with VB.NET, but yes I'm comparing it to C# and C++

My vision:
- Visual Basic (Total slave of Microsoft's environment, mostly for useless apps and great for learning of course)
- C# (Stays still in Microsoft's environment, but not that much than Visual Basic, mostly for some useful apps and easier to learn if you have in example a PHP + OOP experience before)
- C++ (Still kinda unknown for me, but I'm learning it currently, but looks like that I can do much more advanced things than a VB and C#)

[Nightwalker83]

- C# (Stays still in Microsoft's environment, but not that much than Visual Basic, mostly for some useful apps and easier to learn if you have in example a PHP + OOP experience before)

What? Learning VB or C# has nothing to do with whether you know or are good at php. The way the processing of forms, etc is done using either if those languages in .net is via asp.net which, is a different kettle of fish to php. ASP.NET is Object Oriented while php is from hast century and it doesn't seem to be moving forward.