Thread: Which is difficult to learn Java or C++

Originally Posted by jennie01

I would rate myself as a beginner/intermediate who tries to learn VB.NET programming- very good at scripting with VBScript. So I haven't really touched on either Java or C++ or any hardcore programming since I personally consider VB.NET cheating as you're really just drawing and filling in the gaps with code you can search for online!!!!

I wanted to explore more the other aspect of real programming because it always catch my interest. But could someone recommend to me one or the other ? my destination platform would be both Linux and Windows. Your comments and Ideas will be a great help for me since I am assisting a friend in developing programs and software about this Point of Sale System .Please give me some feedback. thank you

C++ is a multi-panagram language, Java is fully OOP. If you have had experience with .NET languages,(VB) it will put you in good stead for
learning another language. C++ and Java, were both written in C, so they both have roots and similarities with each other. However, one of the
big differences is that Java is a Managed language, I.E it has a manual memory managed via a garbage collector. There are no pointers,
(well in a sense there are - but you never have to deal with them) so this makes it easier to learn Java and IMHO it's a more "forgiving" language
than C++ - in the fact it does not allow references passing at all (apart from arrays) - which is debatable as Java passes everything by value,

Before I ramble off the subject - I would say C++ is more difficult than Java overall. You have to manually handle memory allocation,
deal with memory leaks and other bugs associated with it - it is almost a H U G E language, and very complex. If you master Java,
you will certainly have a good platform for C++.

Wishes Ada xx

Like others have said, this is entirely subjective. It's like asking "which tool is harder to learn, the hammer or the saw?" The answer is that it depends on *you* more than anything else.

That being said, I would recommend checking out Processing: Processing.org

It's built on top of Java but is designed for beginners. It's pretty amazing what you can have running in just a few lines of code.

Shameless self-promotion: the link in my signature to Static Void Games contains tutorials and open-source programs that take you from Processing, through Java, and into more complicated engines like libGDX.

C++ is a lot harder to learn than Java for me.