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Im trying to get into programing and I have looked at the tutorials posted by hybrid. Unfortunately I have no idea how to use any of them except the HTML one which I found rather simple. I was hoping that someone could post something to show how to write and run a simple program that I can use to learn from. I have a program called "Crimson Editor" and it has many pre-written codes, but I also have no idea how to get them to run. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
TheRightHandMan
Well what language are you trying to use and what are you trying to do?
it is all about the language... while HTML is also a languages.. it is mainly a formating display lang.
It's not so easy..
There are lots of e-books available on the net. I suggest starting with C or PHP.
Im thinking about starting with c++ but I dont know, whatever is recommended to start with I will. But other than that, Im not technically trying to do anything, yet, i just want to learn how to do something if i so desire.
TheRightHandMan
Ask this questions to yourself.
1. Who is my target Audience? ( who are you going to show ur programs )
2. Programs or Scripts?
3. Visualization or tools?
I figure Ill just show it to friends. And I hope to make a simple game or something to that extent. other than that I dont know what you mean by the whole visulation/script/tool business.
TheRightHandMan
A simple game..
I'd say go with JAVA or visual basic then. C++ is a hard language to master, I've tried it myself a year ago and only progressed very slowly - even though I'm already an ace on PHP and JAVA. C# is allegedly a bit easier, but still hard as hell compared to JAVA or VB.
Truth be told, to start I'd say PHP, but its kind'a hard to make a good graphical game in PHP - after all, its not a language with good standalone graphical output capabilities (don't get me wrong, it can be done, its just a tad difficult =), as compared to JAVA or VB. Though if you want to learn how to code the easy way, start with looking at PHP scripts for server websites, release your own, etc, thats how I learned it anyway :)
Also, of these 4 languages PHP is the only one that doesn't require you to know about pointers, data types and classes, ie the object oriented way of programming, which saves a LOT of learning time believe ;)
So how would I go about looking at the Server Code for the Websites? I believe its available on FireFox but on IE? I have a pc with FF but its not currently in my possieon. Does anyone have any examples of a simple Java Program I can use to learn from? If so please let me know. Thanks
TheRightHandMan
use google, search!
As for PHP code, on a correctly setup server, you can't see it, ever. Doesn't matter what browser you use. Just download scripts that people release, like website packages. You can simply edit them with notepad.
Though personally, I prefer UltraEdit32 for HTML and PHP, search for it, its free to download.
As for C++, I use Dev-Cpp to code, and for Java I use NetBeans IDE