What computer language should I learn to write small games?

[alva]

Whenever I read stuff such as "no-brainer" choice regarding programming languages, my "religious-code-wars" alarm starts going off. Let's try not to go there.

btw, you can do anything with vb.net, that you can do with any other language, including programming DirectX (managed).

The advantage with starting vb.net over c# is that are more tutorials out there for the beginner, once you start to get more advanced though, you'll find better info for c#.

Ajbera: download the IDE (either vb or c#) and just start programming. If you run into a problem, post it here, I'm sure someone will help you out.