Am a computer science student and am sick of the DOS environment called FORTRAN which they take us in school. It really sucks. Guys i neeed to get ahead. Which better prolang can i go for. Include details please

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since you are a computer science student, i would recommend Scheme. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. It is used in a lot of universities to teach concepts of computer science and programming since its difficult to do so which most other modern languages. Lisp is mainly used in Artifficial Inteligence and can be used in dynamic web design, games, simulators and CAD software, image editors like GIMP and shells (like emac shell). After learning Scheme, since you have learnt the concepts of programming and programming languages, not just their syntax, it would be easier for you to learn other languages and would in general make you a better programmer.

To learn scheme, you will need this book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming written by the creators of Scheme and MIT/GNU Scheme.
Optionally, you can download: How To Do Programming also by MIT press but you'll need DrRacket.
You can download the books for free on www.4shared.com

pls how do one get started here I am just new in this room can someone help me out

Go for a programming Language that is here to stay.

Something like JAVA, C#, Vb.net, Asp.net etc, These prog. languages are here to stay. Fortran is dead - well a dying breed. I can't understand why it is still being taught, maybe because the tutors/Lecturers are too lazy to pick up new languages.

Read computer Journals online, and see what is hot in the Market these days. If you are keen to try something new, you could look at Adobe flex and so on. Say no to Fortran - way too old