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I would suggest starting out with Turbo Pascal and then learn C. The reason for this is simple. Pascal is a language that protects you from your own stupidity. It has very strict type checking which is both a bane and a boon. Once you are comfortable with Pascal, graduate to C. C is very popular because it is a very nice language to use. It allows you to do just about anything you want to the machine yet lets you do it at a higher level than Assembler. The only problem with this is that with this power, comes the wonderful ability for you to hang yourself quite nicely. Heeren Pathak s.cs.uiuc.edu zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu