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Does anyone here wanna give me a tutorial on basic?

If by basic, you mean the programming language BASIC, I wouldn't be able to help you. Personally, I think a good beginning language would be Python, but that's my opinion. This goes along with my belief that BASIC is fairly antiquated. By the way, BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. You can find information about the programming language Python at http://www.python.org . Enjoy.

I'd be curious as to which BASIC as well.... the original versions that where used for years where a mess of spagetti code with all those line numbers and GOTOs.... shudder....

The old DOS Quick and Power BASICs where a bit better as you could treat them as more structured languages...

Most of the newer BASICs are the Visual kind and are quite a bit different than when things started...

Unless you have a specific need to program BASIC I'd go with one of the scripting languages or get a free C or C++ compiler (there are a few around, even ones for Windows).

madphilb wrote:I'd be curious as to which BASIC as well.... the original versions that where used for years where a mess of spagetti code with all those line numbers and GOTOs.... shudder....

The old DOS Quick and Power BASICs where a bit better as you could treat them as more structured languages...

Most of the newer BASICs are the Visual kind and are quite a bit different than when things started...

Unless you have a specific need to program BASIC I'd go with one of the scripting languages or get a free C or C++ compiler (there are a few around, even ones for Windows).

Ok i guess i should learn C++

Knives wrote:Ok i guess i should learn C++

That was a pretty easy sell

It'll be far more usefull to you in the end... maybe I can dig out my old bookmark files and see if I have a link to one of those free compiler sites.

Here is a free C compiler for Windows... it might be a good place to start (along with a good book on learning C):

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

You may be able to find some on-line resources for learning C as well... try googling it (along with "free c compiler" if you want to look for another one).

Well I'm going to put in my $0.02 since I'm a computer science combo business major. My school is always bragging about the stupid awards we win (yeah sure *gag*), so whatever here are the languages they teach:

Visual Basic - no longer required to take but pretty easy to pick up yourself
Java - 3 semesters of the horror
Cobol - optional class
Lots and lots of database classes. They don't even teach C or C++ anymore.

Lots of other schools still teach C++ though, so just because my school has decided to basically only teach Java doesn't mean much.

Another good beginner's programming language is PASCAL. It focuses alot on good program structure. Python does that as well, but the structure is much cleaner in my opinion.

Here's a link for Free PASCAL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/
If you are using windows downlaod the Win32 package.

If you're interested in game design - DarkBasic and BlitzBasic could help. I'll need to dig out the links for the site. They provide trials of the program and LOTS of tutorials on how to use them.

C++ and Java are similar they follow similar layouts and similar patterns - It's not the same language though.

If you learn one it's easier to learn the other (I've done both).

Visual Basic is GUI based - Graphical User Interface. It has buttons and pictures and text boxes n stuff. All you do is drag n drop

In Java or C++ you need to CODE the buttons, what they do where they go. More complex but gives you MUCH more control.