How To Program?

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Hello, how do you make a program? What do you use?

Kind Regards,
Vince.

[loserWILL]

Hello, how do you make a program? What do you use?

Kind Regards,
Vince.

It depends, you could use Visual Basic, Adobe AIR and other things. It just depends an what you're planning to make.

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Well, just simple programs, like a radio player etc. Is there anything free to make them?

+Rep.

Kind Regards,
Vince.

[loserWILL]

Well, just simple programs, like a radio player etc. Is there anything free to make them?

+Rep.

Kind Regards,
Vince.

Other than what I posted above, I'm useless with this stuff.

I'm not sure whether Visual Basic would work for that.

[Stephen!]

A radio player isn't really that simple.. for a beginner.

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Ok then, what's simple that I can make and what free program can I use to make it?

+Rep

Kind Regards,
Vince.

[Stephen!]

You can make a calculator with visual basic..

[vTaz]

Ok then, what's simple that I can make and what free program can I use to make it?

+Rep

Kind Regards,
Vince.

making a radio player is pretty simple in vb6, just use the windows media component..

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Thanks, +Rep :)

- Vince.

[Nightcrawler]

Noooo VB Sucks its really newbish and anyoying.

[Stephen!]

Would you expect a complete newcomer to programming start coding in Javascript?

[vTaz]

Noooo VB Sucks its really newbish and anyoying.

its not "newbish" it's good for beginners. and it's not very annoying..

[Invent]

Would you expect a complete newcomer to programming start coding in Javascript?

You don't develop desktop programs in Javascript.


its not "newbish" it's good for beginners. and it's not very annoying..

Visual Basic is a TERRIBLE start for begginers. It'll ruin your chances of learning a language like C# with ease. Dive straight into a good language like as I said C# or something like C++ or Python.

[vTaz]

You don't develop desktop programs in Javascript.



Visual Basic is a TERRIBLE start for begginers. It'll ruin your chances of learning a language like C# with ease. Dive straight into a good language like as I said C# or something like C++ or Python.


It doesn't ruin your chance of learning language's like C#, you can learn any language :S. it's that simple, i learnt vb6. now im onto C++ at the moment. so it hasn't really ruinned my chance of learning something better...

[Nightcrawler]

Anything they teach in 6th Form is newbish as its easy to learn with

im currently learning VB again :( and Java .

Java is slightly easyer to use however VB is good as everything is already there such as Radio buttons , Buttons etc, all you do is code the shell is already there.

[Mentor]

Vbs a good start if you new its simple and the drag and drop GUI with its predefined objects allows you to gain a number of oop benifits without really needing any direct understanding of oop programming.

Java is nicer, but you have to build your own guis which likly isnt very easy if your new to it... the same with most langauges :p

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Hi, thanks for all your help. +Rep to all of you if I can. Can anyone post download links to program makers and maybe tutorials?

- Vince.

[Nightcrawler]

VB (Visual Basic)
Download:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/vbasic/ms789072.aspx
Tuts:
http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/net/vbNet.html

Java
Download:
http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Tuts:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/


hope that helps.

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Thanks a lot :D

- Vince.

[Tomm]

If you really really have to use VB atleast use VB.Net not VB6.

However, I recommend you learn something like C++ or C#.

[dotMark]

Hello, how do you make a program? What do you use?

Kind Regards,
Vince.

Hey Vince,

Visual basic is most probabily the easiest. You can find all the example coding and tutorials for it on the internet easily.

Good luck with whatever project you are working on.

Kind regards,
Mark G.

[ThisNameWillDo!]

Hello, thank you all for your help once again. Mark, I am not on a project but I am thinking about programming some stuff just for fun and so that I can learn to program.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Kind Regards,
Vince.

[Zak]

Java

Which I write using JPADPRO.