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  1. Mikaz

    Mikaz Level II

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    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:
     
  2. Billy

    Billy Level IV

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    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).
     
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    personnally, i would choose vb.net for you as it is your first programming language
     
  4. Mikaz

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    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?
     
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    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
     
  6. Billy

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    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/
     
  7. Snowman

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    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
     
  8. Mikaz

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    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?
     
  9. Snowman

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    Sam's learn VB in 21 says is pretty good for beginners, try that.
     
  10. Mat2dong

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    VB is the best thing for you dude:) It's ezer to learn then C++
     
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