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[evil__donkey]

no i am not kidding.

[Blivrail]

If you want to learn computer programming and have no previous experience, read up some websites about a old old language called BASIC... it's basically a language that does line by line execution, like feeding instructions into a robot. All the fundamentals of programming are pretty much there - loops, conditions, subroutines, stuff like that.

Then once you have a good feeling about it, go ahead and move onto Java... Java is an object oriented language. It isn't the simple "go from the top-to-bottom" anymore, but it's a lot neater, and much more powerful.

Finally, after Java do take a hack at C++, and a book I suggest you should read is "C++ Primer Plus" by stephen prata. It's big and blue. C++ is also object oriented, but it has a lot of symbolic notation that is confusion yet confusing (yet powerful!)

[tarlrules]

Hey Ive also been programming since I was in middle school, (9 to 13 - uk) and I started with BASIC! I agree thats HTML is a good starting point, (it gets you used to notepad for a start - lol!) but I think C is a valuable language. Half of C++ is C anyway! I learn't like so:

1) BASIC
2) HTML
3) A little JavaScript
4) C
5) C++
6) WinAPI for C (I prefer the raw code than the simplified C++)

Also I would like to add to whoever said use "C by Example" to learn C, I agree the book is great for getting the basics of Console based C apps.

Tarl

[M9IqpK4]

and where is ASM?

[bozthepcnerd]

Yeah, I've been programming since I was about 12, tought myself:

1. HTML (Notepad)
2. Some basic JavaScript
3. PHP and MySQL
a. Created basic admin system
b. Created Authentication with md5 passwords
4. C++

I must admit that if you teach yourself PHP, you should be in good stead with the language, as you could pretty much copy a basic helloworld script from PHP and get it working in C++ lol

Though this is about as far as I've gotten (haha )

I do need some guidance in this field to get me further,

1. What Compiler would be most benificial, if I was doing a game programming course in UNI, i.e. MS VB 7 .NET, Bloodshed's Compiler or another?
2. Also what Books would be best to start by introducing the librarys and what they do, where you include them. Also building basic projects in windows (not DOS) and creating games using C++ with OpenGL or DirectX 9, while providing more complex projects as it goes through.

Do the O'Reilly series provide a good c++ book?

Thanks this'd be really cool

Boz.

[Prince21]

yeah maybe you know alot of langauges but you might not now them well. plus you might not now everything.

How old are you now?

COme on at 12 years old no way you can master any language well

[dreamthief]

M9IqpK4, on Jun 24 2004, 15:50, said:

and where is ASM?

assembly language

[bozthepcnerd]

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yeah maybe you know alot of langauges but you might not now them well. plus you might not now everything.

How old are you now?

COme on at 12 years old no way you can master any language well

Well, I know HTML like the back of my hand usu attached to a book for reference, not much in Java, use PHP and MySQL continously, making forum at the moment much like this with avatars and alike so pretty good at that.

I'm 17 atm only 5months till 18 yay

[MrCodeDude]

Quick question, what's the difference between iostream and iostream.h? Other than I don't have to type using namespace std;?

Why doesn't iostream.h recognize cout?

[azcodemonkey]

MrCodeDude, on Jul 11 2004, 19:47, said:

Quick question, what's the difference between iostream and iostream.h? Other than I don't have to type using namespace std;?

Why doesn't iostream.h recognize cout?

iostream.h is not the current standard library. It is deprecated.

iostream is the standard library.

I have no idea why iostream.h isn't recognizing cout. It should.

[Y2K]

im a real noob, i can almost make teh 'hello world' program and i understand it but i cant get the f**kn thing to run.
i used inscite to compile it and im not sure how to run it.

[Y2K]

weenur, on Jul 12 2004, 18:02, said:

iostream.h is not the current standard library. It is deprecated.

iostream is the standard library.

I have no idea why iostream.h isn't recognizing cout. It should.

umm try
#<iostream> without .h becuase its not recognised cos its too old or sumthing

[kjordan2001]

Y2K, on Aug 20 2004, 00:16, said:

umm try
#<iostream> without .h becuase its not recognised cos its too old or sumthing

#include <iostream>

[Y2K]

kjordan2001, on Aug 20 2004, 13:07, said:

#include <iostream>

My bad

[bithub]

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im a real noob, i can almost make teh 'hello world' program and i understand it but i cant get the f**kn thing to run.
i used inscite to compile it and im not sure how to run it.

First of all, from looking at the inscite homepage, it appears inscite is just a code editor -- not a compiler.

If the "hello world" program was compiled correctly, then an .exe file should be created.