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Subject: Re: newbie question: chess programming

Author: James Robertson

Date: 19:34:46 01/06/99

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On January 06, 1999 at 15:07:56, Mark Ryan wrote:

>I want to start dabbling with chess programming, but I need to learn a
>programming language with little baby steps.  What is the easiest programming
>language to learn?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark

Visual Basic is probably the easiest, but the most straight-forward is C, which
I recommend. It is not much harder than Basic (if at all), and your chess
program will be more flexible in the end (Visual Basic code is ugly, and does
not port well to other operating systems!!!). Buy a nice intro to C book, and
you're all set to begin what will soon be your favorite hobby!

If, however, you want to write a chess program with a Windows GUI, definately go
with Visual Basic as Windows programming in C++ is very complicated.

James



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