This is my first post actually, but I thought - lets skip the introduction and get right to business.

The last 14-16 months I have been trying to get the grips of programming but I keep giving up. I either get annoyed by the books that I am reading (which are either too detailed or lack of) or find myself questioning - am I doing the right thing?

I started with C# because I thought it would appeal to me. After trying some basic code examples (and reading O'Reilly books) I noticed that it did all I want, however, people (that programmed for years) had advised me to pick something else. In their opinion .NET was actually slow and C++ could do a lot more (is faster) and was more commonly used. If you wanted to do GUI applications - C# was the answer, for anything else you would have issues. So it got me confused and after doing some research - it confused me even more so I called it a day and went on doing the "regular" studying.

What I am actually wondering about and this is basically aimed at people that do programming for a living: what language should I learn? One that can do anything, is widely accepted and more important - will still be relevant years to come?

I am sorry if this is not the correct sub-forum, but I was convinced that none of the other sections were actually related to my question. I should mention that I have absolutely no programming background, but I am an easy learner and pick things up rather quickly.

Cheers,

lunaaaa