Which is a better programming language to learn, C++ or Java, to find work in the financial industry?

Both... (you'll need them) and you'll gotta learn a lot of new languages that'll appear, the best thing is to learn the basics of programming, so you'll can learn any language in just a few days...

Which is a better programming language to learn, C++ or Java, to find work in the financial industry?
I guess you are tryint to enter the field through trading areas. Those need both quick and dirty programming for solving new problems, AND user friendlly interfaces.


You will find that its usefl to know Matlab and/or Mathematica.


Visual Basic IS needed (on spite of the previous poster laugh) in order to expand excel capabilities. I do that all the time and, although I ultimately reprogram what I did in VB, it provides a fast solution.
Reply:Both can REALLY come in handy. They're both a lot alike. And they're both cross-platform. I am not exactly sure what you mean by "financial industry," but it may depend on the company.





They may want to use VB or something. LoL! =). That makes me laugh, but some do.
Reply:i would tend to lean towards java, but as eveyone has said, once you have learnt the basics in one langauage, you can generally pick up things in other languages quickly. if you learn both well, then you are definiatly be at an advantage
Reply:I'd say Java, but that's more from a general sense than from a finance-specific sense - like the above poster said, it's best to just learn the basics since a lotta things carry over between languages - but you can learn the basics in any language. Java, being the more advanced of the two, probably has more forward-thinking features that newer languages will implement than the older C++. I know both and find Java a whole lot more useful, but the same basic principles apply to both.