If I want to become a successful programmer, what else should I study besides Visual Basic and Visual C.net?

I am good at Visual Basic 2005 and Visual C.net, but I found that these two cannot make one a professional programmer. So, what else should I study? I am confused.... What is best rewarding and most needed today? ... Java, or Oracle, or SQL, or what exactly??





Well, I know these are totally different topics and each one of them is needed somewhere or another. But what I would like you my fellow friends to help me with is: If I am already good at Visual Basic and Visual C, what else do I need to study to be able t make a good career in the programming world, besides my current being a translator?





Thanks in advance for your answers.

If I want to become a successful programmer, what else should I study besides Visual Basic and Visual C.net?
You must study Algorithms. How to solve complex problems. Just pick up any book related to Algorithm analysis and Datastructures. Because, Visual Basic, Visual C, Java are only languages. And one can learn the syntax very easily. The main thing in programming is Algorithms. When you are able to design a good algorithm, you can right code in any language.
Reply:Visual basic is an interface program, and very good for gamnes or small applications.


Visual c is very good for controlling hardware and mechanical instruments.


But when u talk about becoming a programmer, then usualy the clients wants u to make them database programs, for that u must leran SQL, any SQL will do oracle (PL-sql), ms sql, etc


u can use database program the sql with visual basic or visual c to become a good programmer.


remember avery organization has it own prference about programers, some will use oracle, other ms-sql and some might prefer unix or lunix. so just stick to one
Reply:You can start studing MsSql or mysql databases and visualbasic.net to be an Web devoloper


You can find tutorials at http://www.w3schools.com
Reply:TOTALLY depends on what sort of programmer you want to become. For web dev you're probably better off translating your VB scripting to ASP, and your Visual C.net to C#.





SQL is worth knowing regardles of which application programming language you're using. Be it Access, SQL Server, mySQL etc, a strong understanding of formulating SQL statements is an essential skill.





So decide on what technologies / platforms you want to develop for first, and then look at the actual languages that you should learn.





But learn SQL regardless!
Reply:Cold Fusion
Reply:Java, definitely. It's pretty platform independent, which is a good thing.





Oracle %26amp; SQL aren't really programming languages, just ways to make those already built programs do something (I think).
Reply:I guess you can easily study .Net counter part of Visual Studio, as you already used with Microsoft development tools, so its easy to learn.


Java is robust and really stable and portable so you can see that


there will be lot of openings in Java also.





Inspite of all these things, your expertise in a particular language matters most. Be an expert in .Net, I am sure that you will have a good programmer future.