Hi all, I have too much spare time this holiday, so I was actually planning to learn a new programming language this holiday. I would like to learn a programming language in which you could make standalone programs (no scripts). I've already been having some experience in webscripting/webdeveloping, for as far as you can consider that as programming experience. Since I'm pretty new to the whole concept on programming standalone programs , I was wondering what would be the best language to start with for me. I'm looking for something easy to learn, but with still a lot of possibilities. Well, I hope you can help me out I might be joining your programming team in the future, if I get very good at it. hahaha :tehe:
If you are looking for just basic programming, vb is what you want, but there are alternatives, if your looking for really heavy duty and advanced, but complex application programming c++ is good, but hard for the beginner to learn. if you are familiar with java (i saw that you web programmed) then mircrosoft offers a language J# which can be used to develop applications. If you want to try something... different, you can use something like mindscript, i dont know if mindscript can compile (hence the script), but its a more visual approach to programming. Other alternatives that are a lot less popular are Perl (hard to make a gui), python (also hard to make a gui), delphi, and object c (for mac programming. macs ftw).
Lol, about the java. I did have some experience with java, but I just hate most of it since it's slow and terrible to program :tehe: In the past I've been doing some python as well (I wasn't really good at it. Made some simple stuff) , but like you said I was running into the problem that it was hard to make a GUI. About vb, what can you basically make with it? Are you making your AB'ers in vb? How far do the possibilities reach?
you can make most things with vb.net all of expon's programs are in vb.net and has some incredible advantages over vb6 (multithreading for example) the only thing i don't think you can do is to make webpages, you need something like php for that
VB is basically a language you can pretty much everything you can think of, but as i said, if your looking for this to be beyond just coding programs, you should go with c++, but it might be better to learn the idea of programming and do VB first. VB can be dled here http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/
Definetely VB or VB .net first. C++ is very hard for the beginner. When i started i tried C++ before VB and just gave up. I know you can get VB .net for free so its best to start with that i'd assume. You could also try C# which i heard is somewhat easy
Ok, tnx for the advice. I will probably start with VB first, like you adviced. Do you have any tips and tricks where I can start to learn as a beginner. Maybe some good books, or websites with good tutorials?