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[Unknown Hero]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Feb 2 2005, 05:05 PM
Then again, Pascal's easy to learn and is a great language to step into more professional ones, like C/C++.

If you're going for GUI and ease to code, but can lack a bit of power behind the language, you can go with Visual Basic. If you're going for GUI and power behind the language, with still relative ease to code, go for Delphi (if you can find the IDE for it >_> )

If you're not looking for GUIs directly, it all depends on what your requisitions are.

What's a GUI?

[Kon-Tiki]

Graphical User Interface. It's basically what any Windows program has. Buttons to click, boxes to check, fields that give this or that information, fields for input, etc.

[n3ur0]

i wanted delphi, cos ive seen good games made with it, EG: soldat
but, its not free, an i cant buy it here in argentina, cos no1 sell that

[Kon-Tiki]

That's the bugger 'bout those things. They're sold, but you can't buy them anywhere.

[Reup]

Borland used to offer a Personal edition for Delphi for free... don't seem to be the case for the newer version though. .. only a 30-day trial...

Anyway, if you decide yo go with Delphi (which would be an excellent step into programming) read this Beginners Guide to Delphi

[n3ur0]

thank u very much

[Ioncannon]

well new semester and my Computer Science class is fun.... can't wait to start learning VB but right now have to start with gay HTML (Which is easy and I know the language already). >.< Why do we need to learn HTML in a class about PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE!!!!.....I think.

[quatroking]

Why no school have a Programming class? that will be much easier and cool

[Mardi-Gras]

If you're planning on writing games for your own amusement rather than for commercial purposes, and have no previous programming experience, I'd recommend Java. Pretty much everything you need is available gratis from Sun.com, and there are a host of free-to-use compilers out there (such as BlueJ). While arguably not as powerful as some other languages, Java, like C++, is object orientated, which can make the coding process a lot more palatable to the programming beginner. Also, Java makes use of internal libraries, so much of the coding required already exists 'behind-the-scenes' as it were. The language is very well supported on-line, and there are many sites that contain games with their code available.

Having said that, I think every programmer has their favourite language, and would argue that another would be most suited for the first-time programmer. Of course, they'd be wrong, but I would say that, since Java's my favourite.

[Ferna182]

at the beginning ... STAY AWAY FROM VISUAL BASIC .... it's not a bad languaje... it's just that... the way you program with VB it's very different from other codes and the way you write a code in VB it's not so strict as for example in C or C++ ... i think a nice one to start it's delphi... or pascal...