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What is the best language of these choices?

Visual Basic
1
7%
Quick basic
0
No votes
C/C++/Visual C
12
80%
MS-DOS Shell
0
No votes
Others (please state in thread)
2
13%
 
Total votes : 15

Postby Ikerous » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:23 pm

McGinge wrote:Why is it that everyone here knows how to program complex programs except me?? :D :( :D

It's really easy to learn any of these languages. Just come up with an idea for something to code, then pick a language. Then just search through google for sample codes that do similar things and piece em together (Taking out excess code) until you've got your concept working. Figuring out which part of the code you need and which part you don't is where you learn a lot about the language. I think that's how I first did anything in QBasic, VB, ASP, HTML, and PHP
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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:28 pm

IMO, VB is bullshit. The most powerful not-web language is, definitely, C++. All modern IDEs (VB, C++, Java, Delphi etc.) have auto-completion (when you press Ctrl+Space) and other such comfortable things.
I don't want to offend anybody! Everything IMO :)
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Postby Ikerous » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:30 pm

NickyNick wrote:IMO, VB is bullshit. The most powerful not-web language is, definitely, C++. All modern IDEs (VB, C++, Java, Delphi etc.) have auto-completion (when you press Ctrl+Space) and other such comfortable things.
I don't want to offend anybody! Everything IMO :)

VB is crap but its a fun learning experience and you've gotta start somewhere. I had no idea about the ctrl+space thing though :O

God i hate coding XD

Are you going into computer science nicky?
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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:30 pm

McGinge wrote:Why is it that everyone here knows how to program complex programs except me?? :D :( :D

I can recommend you to start with Pascal/Delphi as simple language. It is also closer to C++ then Basic.
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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:34 pm

Ikerous wrote:Are you going into computer science nicky?

No, but my dad and elder brother are programmers :D :)
Though, I go to programming algorithms lessons. If I'll be lucky then I'll participate in IOI (International Olympiad of Informatics) next year. It is competition for students (17 years max) from different countries, like WCH :)
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Postby Overlord » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:40 pm

I agree with you Nick, VB is noobish and teaches wrong concepts of programming and how computers work. C++ is surely the most widely used programming language today. And C# is bullshit too, it's just a pairing of C++ and java by Microsoft.

McGinge, go here

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Postby McGinge » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:41 pm

Ooo thnx for the info :D
In an ideal world, where anything and everything is in perfect form, is there a perfect form of imperfection?

Work THAT one out! :)
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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:51 pm

I like asm but I'm very bad on it :)
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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:52 pm

Official Computer Games Thread

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I'll split this topic now and create "Programming" one :)
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Postby GMan » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:41 pm

How did I miss this thread? I've been "programming" since I was 8 or 9. I'm 18 now and going to college for game programming, which I've always done and loved.

On a side note, I started with VB since it's a great starting language, but I agree it's underpowered and I 100% think C++ rox0rs, especially once you know it really well.
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Postby scimaster » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:54 pm

I've just added a poll, please vote!
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ww@localhost:echo $name

"\  /\  /  /\   |--  |--  |=   |\  |"
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Done

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Postby PeterT » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:25 am

I'd never presume to say what the "best" programming language is, but my favourite language is Ruby.
(I know more languages to some degree than I care to list -- I'm nearly finished with a Master's degree in CS and will start my PhD studies in October)
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Postby Overlord » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:55 am

Your poll lacks assembly!

And PASCAL/Delphi, Java, HTML/PHP/ASP - web programming languages...

But my ultimate weapon is C++ + ASM.
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Postby scimaster » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:12 pm

I would cange the question and poll, but I cant. :? :( I would cange the question and add more options.
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Done

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Postby NickyNick » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:17 pm

Man... It is impossible to choose "best" language... Best for what? Most popular? Easiest to use? Best for web development, or for other goals? Anyway, I prefer Java for web development (not PHP) and C++ in general (not Pascal and Basic).
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