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Aragorn
06-16-2001, 11:01 PM
I miss programming!!! I haven't done any programming in the last year except for a little bit of perl that I was trying to learn for a VERY UNSUCCESSFUL venture into the website business. So, I want to get back to what I love. I programmed all through high school in QBasic(yeah yeah), Pascal, VB, and Finally C! I was getting a hold of C very well and then I went to college, ick, I should have know better. If anything college took me further back in my ventures than forward(I don't believe that is what they were supposed to do)anyways I am wanting to learn one of these new fangled languages like perl, python, and Java(although that one isn't all that newfangled). So where do I start and who wants to help? :)

Marcel2008
06-17-2001, 08:46 AM
Perl and Python are scripting languages, java is a very good language since it is multiplatform. But c is still the no.1

Aragorn
06-17-2001, 06:06 PM
Ok, I might go back to C then, I enjoyed it for the 3 years that I programmed in it. Question is, I got to the point in C where I didn't know what to do anymore, I had no purpose or project or idea for a project. After I get refreshed on the language, which shouldn't take to long, what would be a good project for me to dive into.

Josh Rogers

GrassMunk
06-17-2001, 06:57 PM
if youve got any idea would like to add
go to www.Binspace.org (http://www.binspace.org) Once the site takes off it will eventually solve problems like this [ive seen it here about twenty times]. So add an idea [aka project] and hopefully you'll help you people that are stuck in your situation.

jemfinch
06-17-2001, 10:04 PM
Python is actually more cross platform than Java. It has (IMO) a simpler, cleaner syntax. I definitely think it's the language for you to start again with.

Jeremy

Aragorn
06-18-2001, 04:23 AM
What are the capabilities of python? Is it not pretty much a scripting language? Augh, I don't know, so many new languages, it is hard to decide!!!

kmj
06-18-2001, 08:37 AM
I'm willing to be that you can do anything you want to do (at this point) in python. If you have some experience (like you mentioned), head over to http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html and go through the tutorial. It's pretty simple and you'll be doing real apps (whether GUI, networking, file I/O, ICBM, ABC, BBD, east cost family, [sorry got carried away]) in no time.