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Xlimun
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 01:44
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I've been giving coding some pretty serious thought latley and want to start out on something 'share/free ware'.

I had done some programming when i was 12ish in BASIC on the good old AMSTRAD CPC (i'm 19 now) so i was wondering should i go for Q/Visual BASIC or just jump into something like C++ ?

I have the basic grasps of simple 'basic' programming but admitedly need a bit of a polish.

So BASIC or C or indeed any other suggestions?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Xlimun
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 01:49
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-sorry about the double post.

(would have been deleted if an edit/del post option was available)

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hexGEAR
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 02:05
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hey, i'll be 19 soon well i've basically gotten the grasp of the basic programming language (visual basic and dark basic) and most definately gonna move on to C++ sometime soon, maybe late this or next year. I'd guess after basic, the next logical step would be C++ in my opinion

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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 12:22
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C# or C.net (I am not sure what the difference is, [SHOUT] RABEN [/SHOUT] ) Is a good place to start at the moment.

.net framework allows great web development/applications programming at a decent price. (If you are at school, you should be able to get the school to buy a copy of .net studio for you (about $100) then you get VB, C, JAVA?, and the rest.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 15:45
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C# is a (vastly!) updated version of C++ created by the same developer who came up with C++ - personally I adore it and have coded in it for quite a while now. It needs the .NET framework to operate. That is all .NET is - a framework, it's not a "language" or a "driver" or anything like that - it's a framework that everything sits ontop of (and a damned powerful one too).

There is no such thing as C.net - you probably mean C++ .NET which is basically C++ using the .NET framework.

You don't get Java btw But yeah - get the educational price version of Visual Studio .NET for C#, C++ and VB .NET (ick! VB scum!)

Cheers,

Rich

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IanM
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 15:59
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Actually Rich, you can get Java for .NET - M$ called it J# to avoid copyright issues.

I have to say that C++ is probably the next best step to take (despite working for a Java software house).

An advantage that M$ have given C++ at the moment IMHO is the fact that you can use it in the 'normal' C++ way, or within the Framework at your discretion.

And C++ is a cross-platform development language, although this advantage will decrease in time (but not disappear) with .NET being ported to other platforms.
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Xlimun
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 19:44
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Thnx.

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