The fast booming Information Technology has left open a wide opportunity in the field of software and its related products and services. The software industry is touted to be one of the highest paying industries, making programmers the richest among the lot. Even though you are not a techie, the knowledge of a programming language can certainly be an added merit on your resume. Listed below are the top 10 programming languages one must try to learn in 2014 as compiled by Mashable.

 

#10 Java

 

Developed in 1990 by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, Java is purely an object-oriented programming language. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA),  making the program to run on other platform without recompilation. Being used as a standard for enterprise software, web-based content, games, mobile apps, and Android operating system, the demand for Java programming language has increased in leaps and bounds.

 

#9 HTML/CSS

 

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and is the core technology of the Internet. HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. The programming language allows embedding of images and objects, and can be used to create interactive forms.

               Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL. With tablets, Smartphones and cloud-hosted services becoming widespread, the importance of the Web grows along with it.

#8 Python

With less complex codes, Python can be easily learned by a beginner. This particular language is used in writing scripts for websites and mobile apps. Stand alone and executable programs can be compiled using python with assistance from third party tools. Some of the web apps and internet platforms that use Python include Instagram, Pinterest Google, Yahoo! and NASA.

  

 

#7 PHP

 

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP is now installed on more than 244 million websites and 2.1 million web servers. High-speed scripting with caching, augmented compiling code plug-ins is what makes the future of the language. High-profile sites including Facebook, Wikipedia and Wordpress run on PHP.

#6 SQL

SQL is the world's most widely used open source relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language. The programming language was developed in 1980 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The scope of SQL includes data insert, query, update and delete, modification, and data access control.

#5 Objective-C

Objective-C was created first by Brad Cox and Tom Love at their company Stepstone in the early 1980s. It is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. The language is now mostly used in Apple iOS and Mac OS X and is of great demand.

#4 JavaScript

JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language that is smaller than Java. Being a client-side language, it runs in the web browser on the client-side with a simplified set of commands, easier code and no need for compilation. It is used in millions of web pages to authenticate forms, detect browsers and improve design. Some of the applications that contain JavaScript embedded codes include chrome extensions, Apple's Safari extensions, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe's Creative Suite.

 

#3 C++

C++ is a general purpose multi-paradigm spanning compiled language that has both high-level and low-level language features. It was started as an enhancement to the C programming language in 1979. With application domains including systems software, application software, server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games The programming language has proved itself really powerful with applications including domains related to software, server and client and entertainment. Firefox, Winamp and most of the Adobe programs are coded on C++.

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#2 Visual Basic

This is an event-driven programming language that is implemented on Microsoft’s .Net framework. Released in 1991, the developers intend Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. The programming language enables the development of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases, Remote Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.

 #1 C language

C, a general purpose programming language built in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie when he was a part of Bell Telephone labs, is the bass of C++ and other programming languages. C is one of the most widely used programming languages and the syntax of Java and C# is derived from it. Its efficient design construct use machine instructions, and therefore applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language could be run on C compiler. C has facilities for structured programming and allows lexical variable scope and recursion and C compilers work seamlessly with majority of available computer architectures and operating systems.