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 Oct 20 2005, 11:21 AM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ]  Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 8-October 05 Member No.: 8,988  |
Just wanted to add something...
it'll be really short: "Never start learning programing from VB..." and if u can, stay away from vb for good... |
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Oct 21 2005, 02:43 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 21-August 05 Member No.: 8,003 |
I understand Visual Basic is pretty useful for writing Windows viruses... and not much else.
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Oct 21 2005, 01:07 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 21-October 05 Member No.: 9,221 |
Like said before, the question is, what do you wanna do with it?
Option one, GAME PROGRAMMING Try GameMaker, it's a great program with a very nice language: GML. The syntax of GML is pretty much equal to C++ so it's easy to change if you want to become a more expierenced programmer. You can download GM at www.gamemaker.nl and there's a very good forum at forums.gamemaker.nl. The second option, WINDOWS APPLICATIONS I personaly should try Visual Basic or C# since they're designed by Microsoft and you can make sweet applications with them. C++ is also an option. -=jeroen=- |
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Oct 22 2005, 10:28 AM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 8-October 05 Member No.: 8,988 |
QUOTE(clagnol @ Oct 21 2005, 04:43 AM) I understand Visual Basic is pretty useful for writing Windows viruses... and not much else.  Actually thats not the case, Visual Basic is completely useless when it comes to coding anything subtle, worms or viruses or anything that needs to be well crafted. The main reason for this is: MSVBVM60.DLL.. i mean really, "i am sorry i cant start the virus, please install msvbvm60.dll so i can take over you computer, thanks in advance, the friendly virus."  VB is only useful for quick and dirty (notice DIRTY) gui aplications for windows. thouse quick applications that it would be a drag to code in pure win32api because the main part of them is the interface and not the code. |
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Feb 23 2006, 06:35 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Northeastern Connecticut USA Member No.: 11,487 |
QUOTE(cyborgxxi @ Oct 16 2005, 05:34 AM) I also have to ask you guys, "Where can I learn a programming language?" After thinking about WHY: As a hobby at first and grow up into a freelance or a programmer for some company. I take a great amount of interest in computers and I have to say programming is very vital in this computer world. But first, I have to know where I can learn some stuff. Hmm... the problem is I don't know what language to start out with. I finally decided on HTML to get the hang of what everything is - but I also do not know how to "learn" HTML. Teachers told me that it's a self-learning language through the trial and error method / use of Frontpage codes. It was very intimidating because I had no idea what these codes stood for, except for some. For example, <br> means break (return). <b> is bold, <i> is italics, and that's it. Hahaha!! I just got started learning to code myself. I went to a site called HTML Goodies and it can teach you about HTML, Perl, ASP, Javascript, Mysql and some others too I think. I've found it very helpful. I've wanted to learn coding for fun, for a game I've wanted to make. But someday maybe I'd like to do it for a career, who knows. |
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Feb 9 2008, 01:20 AM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 1-November 07 Member No.: 25,869 |
i want to know more about where to start - eg. what language is best for what i want
Where To Start Learning Programming <a href=http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=8630&view=findpost&p=56904>Replying to Tamer78Aly</a> Well I truly want to know where to start without later regreting that I started at the wrong place Please advise me as I have this idea and want to put it into a program Please let me know My idea is a very intricate system to solve the problems of many issue in my work - printing is my line and I have a idea which I would like to put into a program Please mail me back Thank you Craig van der Klashorst South Africa -craig |
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 Feb 14 2008, 01:55 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 137 Joined: 8-January 08 Member No.: 27,477 myCENTs:48.54 |
Here is an interesting link to somebody who is a skilled programmer, but wanted to decide for himself which language is most useful in general applications. He has done the best job I have seen comparing C++, Java, Python and Ruby.
He has chosen a relatively sophisticated computer-science problem, implementing a red-black tree for for maintaining a collection of data elements. He has coded it in all four languages, and constructed a very elegant HTML frame page in which you can compare any two of the languages side-by-side. As a result, you can just look at the different language constructions and get a sense of how the language is written, and what is needed to solve challenging problems. If you are interested in trying them out, he even has the code in a zip file, so you can download it and work with it yourself. His conclusions are presented at the first link. Basically, when a programmer has chosen the relative importance of execution speed, portability, program clarity and ease of debugging, the programmer has probably chosen a language. Take a look! 
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Oct 26 2008, 04:59 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 1-November 07 Member No.: 25,869 |
Pls , kindly help me I have opportunity of working in software company without having basic knowledge of it . Pls what should I do to become a programmer
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