| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| St0rm.iD | If anyone wants any choices added, reply! | November 29, 2003, 5:05 AM |
| iago | VB. | November 29, 2003, 1:38 PM |
| Riddle | Instead of VB. ;) | November 29, 2003, 2:22 PM |
| j0k3r | lol@Iago I'd say to go with Java, most schools in Ontario offer that as a grade12 programming course, and trust me being ahead in your class is lots of fun. The only problem I can see (what I'm having) is understand how everything is put together and how it's supposed to run (.class .java .html, how they all link together in a project). Java also forces you to learn OOP concepts. | November 29, 2003, 4:21 PM |
| hismajesty | QBasic. | November 29, 2003, 5:10 PM |
| St0rm.iD | Added JavaScript...BUT DON'T VOTE FOR IT! :) | November 29, 2003, 5:10 PM |
| Hitmen | JavaScript. ;) | November 29, 2003, 7:46 PM |
| Mitosis | C++ even though Im a newbie. | November 29, 2003, 10:25 PM |
| iago | VB. | November 29, 2003, 10:41 PM |
| DaRk-FeAnOr | Java or C# | November 29, 2003, 11:56 PM |
| St0rm.iD | Mitosis your votes don't count. | November 30, 2003, 1:46 AM |
| crashtestdummy | Down here in louisiana the only programming class they teach is qbasic. Did you put that on there seriously. Is there anything worthwhile that can be done with Qbasic? | November 30, 2003, 11:32 AM |
| iago | QBasic and Visual Basic have the exact same syntax. Years ago, I read books on QBasic (that was my first language), then I ended up with a VB compiler and was able to figure out VB with no books or no internet or anything. It's a really easy transition. | November 30, 2003, 1:38 PM |
| wut | How about Perl? Comes with most UNIX-based systems, although you can get it on windows IIRC (ActivePerl?). It has it's own package manager and a lot of great modules, from things like mod_perl on apache to xmms-perl (I wrote an MP3 script for my IRC client with this :p). Very powerful for text processing (you'll never need to learn sed/awk) but also supports TCP/IP networking. And albeit there is no Perl forum here, you're likely to get help if you connect to irc.linux.org (freenode) and join #perl. | November 30, 2003, 1:43 PM |
| iago | I don't think Perl would make a very good starting language. It's better to start with C and move onto Perl, in my opinion. | November 30, 2003, 1:59 PM |
| St0rm.iD | How about Logo? | November 30, 2003, 8:46 PM |
| iago | That doesn't even count. | November 30, 2003, 10:55 PM |
| Etheran | QBasic because that is where I started. | December 2, 2003, 1:09 AM |
| K | [quote] Java (free SDK) C# (free command-line tools) Python (free IDE, the works) C++ (free IDE and GCC) (etc) [/quote] Just as a quick note, there is at least one free IDE for C#: SharpDev. | December 2, 2003, 1:11 AM |
| MesiaH | qbasic has become quite a powerfull language actually. Incredibly slow and un-reliable, but with its latest features and such, you can do alot more than you would think.. I wrote an entire operating system in qb on my friends old Apple, it took about a week. the relationship between qbasic and visual basic, is no doubt directly linked, especially with the use of the .bas file extention, duhhh. :P But I kinda like Delphi, it has an uber sexy ide, and not everything is done for you in some points, unlike vb.. GOGO DELPHI!! | December 3, 2003, 4:46 AM |
| St0rm.iD | Ew, you did not seriously write an OS in QB. | December 3, 2003, 7:55 PM |
| Hitmen | No, the link between QBasic and Visual Basic would be the word BASIC: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or something like that. | December 3, 2003, 8:23 PM |
| ObsidianWolf | Add ActionScript? | December 5, 2003, 9:14 PM |
| St0rm.iD | [quote author=ObsidianWolf link=board=5;threadid=3933;start=15#msg33843 date=1070658891] Add ActionScript? [/quote] NO. hehe, some kid in my compsci class thinks he's leeter than me because he knows ActionScript. ActionScript is just JavaScript with the "on" syntax construct. | December 6, 2003, 3:58 AM |
| vile | Add Pascal. Pascal is a good newbie language. Btw, I doubt you could write an actual OS using QB. Maybe an OS emulator, but not an actual OS with a bootloader, and all that shit. The language is too high-level. | January 26, 2004, 1:59 AM |
| Skywing | [quote author=vile link=board=5;threadid=3933;start=15#msg41145 date=1075082364] Add Pascal. Pascal is a good newbie language. Btw, I doubt you could write an actual OS using QB. Maybe an OS emulator, but not an actual OS with a bootloader, and all that shit. The language is too high-level. [/quote]I don't think you'd be able to write a bootloader in pure C either, at least for x86... | January 26, 2004, 1:07 PM |
| iago | Perhaps he invented his own architecture which natively runs Basic instead of assembly? | January 26, 2004, 2:36 PM |