Author: Joshua Haglund
Date: 22:12:10 01/13/03
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On January 13, 2003 at 20:24:01, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 13, 2003 at 19:14:14, Luis Smith wrote: > >>but I never could because >>I was never able to afford the software needed. > >There are free compilers for almost any language. > >>About 2 weeks ago I bought MS >>C++ and was working through their tutorials. I found it very hard learning the >>C++ language and essentially quit. > >You might try learning the C programming language, and get the book titled "The >C Programming Language." I found it to be a good way to learn C. You could >probably find some good stuff online too for free. > >I'm not sure what a good first language would be. The first language I learned >was QBasic. I think you would probably be better off with something interpreted >that doesn't get very low-level, so maybe C isn't such a good idea since it >deals with pointers a lot. There is probably a good amount of stuff on the net >about the BASIC programming language if you want to give that a look. That will >let you get the "feel" for programming and modifying programs and becomming >familiar with the basic program control flow ideas. > >You might also consider taking a course at a local community college if you have >one nearby. You could certainly find an introductory class to C or C++, and then >you would have someone there to help you along when you didn't understand >something. I learned QBasic first also. Then I started into C++ the next semester. After that, I think it would be good to learn a bit of Visual Basic; Visual.NET. for a chess engine I'm working on one in C++. In just a week, I'm 1/3 of the way done. I'm also preparing for a 4 year college so I'm learning more C++ on the side. there iare many good site with tut's and sample code. Joshua toneewa@yahoo.com
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