What can I do with programming

I'm confused about what you can expect to do with programming languages after you learn them. Can someone run through some of the more popular programming languages and what they do?

I'd like to try to teach myself programming, and it'd be easier if I had an idea of what kinds of programming projects I can do in any given language so that I can design one and learn the language in hopes of implementing it.

For instance, in what language can I make simple games?  Where do more advanced graphics come in?

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C is for programming systems, but it can still be used for applications. It's the lowest language you can use that doesn't have to be rewritten for different computer architectures.

C++ is a super-set of C, to the point where C++ compilers are backwards compatible with C code. It's main addition is classes which are used as templates for objects. An object is like a dictionary with variables, which are called fields, and functions, which are called methods. The class is just a template for objects. If you were programming a game and you had a class called "baseGun" you would use it to create objects called "uzi","skar", or, "tommy". This way you wouldn't have to rewrite the code for each different gun. Classes are an example of Object Oriented (OO) programming.

C# is Java with hindsight and a C syntax.

Can anyone tell me if I got anything wrong?