kurt476 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 (edited) Hello I been looking in to programing for awhile now. I need some pointers on where to start and would visual basic be aright for begainners shuch as my self?. Please reply back asap Edited December 3, 2006 by kurt476 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Pointers? Here you go. http://pw1.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betaluva Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 i would suggest visual basic exprees,its free and easyish to learn,also download the free starter packs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt476 Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 where do i go to downloa d visual basic learn pack betaluva? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Personnaly, I don't really like VisualBasic.C is fun to play with and you can find some very good papers on the net and books.AutoHotKey or AutoIt are powerful languages, easy to learn and very well documented.Google for them. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer AHK but in fact it is a fork of AutoItv2 (AutoItv3 is not opensource). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 AutoHotKey or AutoIt are powerful languages, easy to learn and very well documented.Google for them. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer AHK but in fact it is a fork of AutoItv2 (AutoItv3 is not opensource). That's scripting, not programming......and yes, if you learn VB you won't really get far even though you may think you are. C/C++ (and eventually C#) are the "real" programming languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddydave Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 (edited) C++ could be a little frustrating for a beginner, but I agree that is where real programming takes place, BUT I myself have been messing with AutoIt3 (with Koda with GUI creation), and I am struck by it serves the same role BASIC used to in the 80's. A nice entry level language for non-programmers to get their feet wet, and high-level enough to make useful little scripts to use around the house .Anyway, I'm a non-programmer, so what do I know, I had a little program on the side I was writing in C++ since I was trying to put my best effort into it, I kind of abandoned it though. Edited February 3, 2007 by daddydave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Just don't start with functionnal languages. (caml/ocaml, scheme, lisp...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Perl is actually a good language to start learning, if your ultimate goal is C or C++ - they're somewhat similar in structure and form, and perl to C is a fairly easy transition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfm Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 LLXX, you gave kurt excellent article to confuse him, I don't think pointers even exist in visual basic. I think he asked for a good starting point, anyway thanks for the link, it's going to be a good read since I always get lost with functions in c that accept or return pointer to an array. Pointer by itself is a simple concept, it is extremely efficient in c programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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