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Shii · 2004-02-04, 16:01

BASIC is useless for teaching programming. It does not teach you anything you need to know for today. It is about twenty years old, and therefore it teaches you twenty-year-old programming techniques. So, if you want to learn FORTRAN, I recommend BASIC.

Learn HTML (technically, HTML is a document format, not a programming language), then you can make neat websites. Plus, you will learn how to recognize and use XML through learning HTML. You are right in saying that they are basically the same thing. XML will be useful for many things, from making skins for Shareaza, to updating your blog with RSS, even to programming in some fancy languages.

Then, sit down at a Linux or Mac OS X computer and make some programs in C.

When you are writing C, the easiest thing to do is to have a UNIX terminal, i.e. Linux or Mac OS X, in front of you. If you really want to use Windows, you pretty much need an IDE-- a desktop environment like Visual C++. Microsoft sells Visual C++ for about $100 or so. Welcome to the world of Windows!

And all those people programming C++ on Windows? Yeah, they're all using Visual C++. If someone on these forums is programming C++ on Windows, he most likely pirated a copy of Visual C++, just like all those people pirating Photoshop. Windows is a despicable thing to use.

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Shii Afflicted by the vanities Fansubber Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fish-shape Paumanok Age: 36	BASIC is useless for teaching programming. It does not teach you anything you need to know for today. It is about twenty years old, and therefore it teaches you twenty-year-old programming techniques. So, if you want to learn FORTRAN, I recommend BASIC. Learn HTML (technically, HTML is a document format, not a programming language), then you can make neat websites. Plus, you will learn how to recognize and use XML through learning HTML. You are right in saying that they are basically the same thing. XML will be useful for many things, from making skins for Shareaza, to updating your blog with RSS, even to programming in some fancy languages. Then, sit down at a Linux or Mac OS X computer and make some programs in C. When you are writing C, the easiest thing to do is to have a UNIX terminal, i.e. Linux or Mac OS X, in front of you. If you really want to use Windows, you pretty much need an IDE-- a desktop environment like Visual C++. Microsoft sells Visual C++ for about $100 or so. Welcome to the world of Windows! And all those people programming C++ on Windows? Yeah, they're all using Visual C++. If someone on these forums is programming C++ on Windows, he most likely pirated a copy of Visual C++, just like all those people pirating Photoshop. Windows is a despicable thing to use. __________________ Learn to define and spell moé Shii (formerly known as ashibaka) Last edited by Shii; 2004-02-04 at 16:13. Reason: Fixed price.