1. Re: What Is Language Best For Newbie
- Posted by LEVIATHAN <leviathan at USWEST.NET>
Dec 16, 2000
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Last edited Dec 17, 2000
> I just have a interest in starting somewhere just not sure where. Not
> professionally, just for a hobby and my own use. What is the main
> difference between these languages? How similar are the they? Which
> one is best for a newbie? I realize this might be a hard question but
> which one is the best for a beginner but could be used for more
> complicated things later, and why?
>
I myself started in DECB (Disk-Extended Color BASIC) on my dads'
CoCo3 at about 5-7 years old, and I used this for awhile until I hit a
wall - I wanted to program useful stuff like my dad, except he used
Basic09, something that resembled a mix of basic and C, or
something, I'd have to take a look at his Solitaire source code again.
Unfortunatly, at 7 years old, all the concentration I had was enough
to make pretty ASCII pictures :)
So, the next time I took on a language was at about 14 years old,
when I took on Euphoria. I never mastered it yet (i'm almost 16
now), but after almost 2 years I have the hang of it now. But... Why
do things choke on hWnd handles? grr... I hate windows...
So yeah, Euphoria, IMO, is a great place to start, and to advance in
:) And if you have C experience, its all the better :)
--"LEVIATHAN"
