Programing...?

timothyb89

timothyb89

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I'm am intrested in programing, and I thought I might teach myself some very basic (don't tell me it's too hard; I learned some decent HTML in a day) programing skills. I downloaded wxBASIC, and and I'm really just wondering is some one could tell me a good site for some BASIC (the kind of language :))
skills. I'm not really sure about the language, because the site wasn't very clear, so I think any links to Visaual Basic 6.0 and normal BASIC programing.
Thanx :D!
 
If you've already got HTML down, I suggest you learn some PHP. It's a language similar to C, yet it's pretty damn easy to learn, and teaches you alot about programming.
 
VB is teh suck....I've been doing VB for about 10 years and I find it absolutely useless in comparisson to c/c++, even c# is better

try looking into Java, as you already have an interest in webdesign
 
Im learning C with a tiny bit of C++ involved aswell, i already know a fair bit of VB and i have to agree, VB is useful for database modding and thats baout it (or at least thats all i can ever use it for). C and C++ are absolutely brilliant for both beginneres and experts, sure its not too great at file handling, so database work is out of the window but if you want to vreate small rpgrms just for the hell of it, like to calculate how many seconds youve been aslepp in you life by entering your birthdate, (one of my personal favorites, he he) then C is your code.

Go for C or C++ but best to start with C as it si more basic, less extensions and syntax structures to learn.

try out www.w3schools.com
 
C/C++ does database/file access just fine, we have APIs for a reason :)

VB has it's uses though. It's good with graphics as well, I've done a lot of image filtering with VB
 
I looked into VB, but I could't fing anything that was free.

Whichevery one is easier to learn, and if it's VB, then does anyone kow of free VB software?
 
i would start with C or C++. 90% of programming is learning the flow and figuring out the logic behind it. C and C++ have a straight foreward enough syntax that this is easy. Once you get this down, learning new languages will be easy as you are doing the same thing, just a different way.

Then you have the wonderfull world of object oriented code, such as Java (not Java script). This is a beast in itself. If you can get C and Java down and get them down well, then you should have no problems learning other languages.
 
Yeah, C/ C++ is basically universal but it takes a while to master it and be able to totally get full use from it. However Visual Basic is better for a beginner because of the simple syntax and the relation to visual objects like buttons, lables etc.
 
Jerkstore said:
VB is teh suck....I've been doing VB for about 10 years and I find it absolutely useless in comparisson to c/c++, even c# is better
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Jerkstore said:

try looking into Java, as you already have an interest in webdesign
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Have you taken a look at VB.NET? Its pretty cool... about a year ago I started programming in ASP.NET ...you can make some amazing web applications very quickly.

As for C#.. its a lot like asp.net code (which is almost identical to vb.net other than a few things like the IsPostBack() method ).. and add a little java twist... and walla... C#.
 
I would say go for PHP, it's fairly easy and very very nice programming language. I work on it when I design websites, I'd say it's my fav. language so far.
 
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