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ahajv4life

ahajv4life

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I'm going to be bored for the next few weeks, and wanted to teach myself how to program. 2 ?'s for ya...1...can people teach themselves that type of thing. Second, which language should i take up? (and maybe a site/tutorial place to get my feet wet?)
 
Turing would definitely be easier to pick up than VB and provides a nice transition to the core of VB's functions (with minor syntactical changes). Shifting from proceduralVB to objectVB is a bit more complicated but a bit of dabbling wont hurt.

Java is supposedly easy to learn (although i friggen hate the damn language) but C/C++ would definitely be one of the more useful languages.... sites? Hmm... dunno ... i just play around until it works :P
 
QBasic?

QBasic was pretty good in the MSDOS/Win98 days.

Things I did during these days (in QuickBasic):

- 3-D Engine featuring Arwing model.

- FireFX (graphs and search up to 2000 stocks, daily data input from yahoo portfolio in modes: candles, stick, 1/2 stick) :( too bad there is no formula for winning in the stock market.

- Patient Base (keeps track of chiropractor's files so that a quick search will reveal file no. tel. no., etc)

Like the original poster of this thread, I wanna learn to program up-to-date software too.

Soo, my questions to you guys is...

Which is more widely used nowadays C/C+ or VB? And isn't VB like a standard language for Windows?
 
Yeah but its not so useful nowadays (as well as it being "BASIC", it allows too much "bad-code" and "bad-designs" to go through), Java and C*.* arent that hard to pick up (mastery is a different story altogether)
 
but if you know C you can basicly program your own operating system. and you can modify Linux Kernels and stuff like that. C is probably the most popular language.
 
what type of things are you wanted to do with programming? if just general, I would go with c++, although one of my friends swears by python
 
i learned visual basic in skool...very easy. making games and stuff is fun. you can get 24HR. books and stuff and try to find 6.0 or latest version. thats probably easiest i wouls think...
 
PASCAL in my Uni. C as Assembly language used in writting/programing Microcontroller Chip. But,now i interest in learning other programming language.:)
 
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