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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vascant" data-source="post: 2258358" data-attributes="member: 13927">*laughs* Judging by the answers so far, I would bet many are in the IT field.. just not actual programmers.1.  In two weeks you will not learn a new language, but good chance you will get a grasp.VB6?  Tons of shops still use this langauge, MS is thinking about about removing support if not already in progress to do so.  There is a reason, the newer versions of .Net are not doing as well as previous versions because of Dev Time and Dev Costs.  You can find VB coders for 10k cheaper then a C#.. (Dollars vary for different areas).  The one thing VB does bring is the time to market which .Net cannot touch.  I think this will be much like the Y2k issue except without an fixed point to kill the language it will never go away.I do agree, VB6 teaches some god aweful habits in new programmers that usually require a 2x4 to remove.  You are going to learn a very bad version of OOP (Before someone jumps that VB6 does not do OOP, it does.  All a language needs to be labeled as OOP is it has Objects that can manage behavior with methods and attributes).  In my professional opinion, I would not learn bad habits until I knew the right way to do something nor would I allow anyone under me to do so either..Net Package:  If you will be in the Enterprise arena, this would be a good thing to know but you will find as the employer gets smaller.. this package is not used.  This will change though, it will just take a few more years. For long term, this is your best bet.  Java.. Just not a professional langauge yet.  They really need to take a SmallTalk approach to this and then it might get some value to it.  I find it funny when the best IDE for a language is notepad but maybe this is me, been using Java since like .42 beta.If you learn something from reading the above, is each langauge has a time and place to be used.  The key to being a good developer, is to know when that is.  You are a perfect example, you have very little time but need a lot done.  So you need to pick a language that fits that and then after these two weeks are over, select a langauge to learn that will help better you as a programmer.  If you were really motivated to learn a real language, you would not have waited until the last 2 weeks to do so.Check out this website: <a href="http://www.planetsourcecode.com" target="_blank">www.planetsourcecode.com</a>This will give you a good look at most of the langauges several of the other posts have brought up.</blockquote>

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