programming

[pgp_protector]

Ok, Ill prob get slammed for this

There is nothing wrong with Visual Basic for a Lot of applications, and if it will fit your needs, why not use it.

I've used it to
create applications for Real Time Gathering of data from multiple Multi meters, Graphing & Plotting of the data & saving data to the systems.

Create applications for universities for Measuring MagnoResistive Heads & Development of New MR Materials

Real time Testing of Semiconductor Test Equipment with communication to SQL Databases

Controlling Test equipment using GPIB Communication with Real Time Processing of the Data

And Even a few quick & dirty apps for converting A HTML Version of the Bible to a SQL Version

 

[Dark_Lite]

It's a pain in the butt to start out with, but then when it comes to coding standard java you won't find that you get left high and dry cos your IDE did a load of work for you or your compiler was modified.

Yes. This is also true. Get the basics down first before you move on to an IDE. Forgot to mention that

 

[datan]

Ok, Ill prob get slammed for this

There is nothing wrong with Visual Basic for a Lot of applications, and if it will fit your needs, why not use it.

there's nothing wrong with using VB.

Brian Kernighan (one of the two guys who invented C, the K in K & R) came to talk at my school a few months ago and he was talking about a course he teaches at Princeton which introduces computers to non-tech people. The course was taught in Visual Basic. This point was that using VB even non-tech people could create simple games pretty easily.

 

[MyNameAlreadyTaken]

What about python? Is it so new that no one here knows about it yet? There's a compiler for each of the platforms...

 

[simchat_torah]

Python isn't exactly a language unto its own. It is more or less an extension language for applications that need a programmable gui. It gels very nicely with C.

I haven't heard of too many companies using python yet... only time will tell if this extension becomes more mainstream.

As well, I wouldn't reccomend using Python or C for a New programmer... VB is one of the most simplistic languages to pick up on... very similar to our English structured language


shalom,
yafet

 

[simchat_torah]

I think a lot of people tend to be wary of that which hasn't been tested all across the board yet.

 

[seebs]

I would call python a full-fledged programming language. Lua, maybe, is "just" an extension language, but I've seen plenty of apps written in python.

 

[MyNameAlreadyTaken]

Um, according to www.python.org, it is a language on its own, but it can be incorporated into C++.