That example may be an blatant exaggeration, but it's still very common among the general public to believe that learning programming is as simple as learning a programming language. Not so.

In fact, the syntax is usually the easiest part of the coding language. The syntax uses key words from English such as “if” and “while,” so it is usually easy to remember.

The logical choice for .Net development is C#.” New features in Visual Basic 14 “may help some current Visual Basic developers, but they are not geared at gaining a new audience,” he says.

Using a space-themed app, kids write if-then rules, learning the syntax of basic coding. An example: if you drop a ball, then it turns red. Or if the ball hits something, then it will make a noise.