1. New Euphoria programmer
- Posted by Philip C Maurer <eu4ia at JUNO.COM>
Jun 22, 1999
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Last edited Jun 23, 1999
Hello, everyone. I'm a thirteen-year-old in the US, and have recently
started to program in Euphoria; that is, I've learned a bit about it. I
haven't made any programs yet, but I think that this list will be helpful
to me in my programming endeavors. Please send me any useful advice a
novice programmer might possibly benefit from; any help at all is
appreciated! Thank you all very much, and I look forward to lively
discussions and helpful suggestions in the future.
So long for now,
Philip CM..
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2. Re: New Euphoria programmer
- Posted by Robert <rmanny at THEGRID.NET>
Jun 22, 1999
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Last edited Jun 23, 1999
Well I'd say, start with the simplest program, like get it to print out
'hello world', and keep writing more complicated programs until you get
puzzled and have a real good question.
Philip C Maurer wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I'm a thirteen-year-old in the US, and have recently
> started to program in Euphoria; that is, I've learned a bit about it. I
> haven't made any programs yet, but I think that this list will be helpful
> to me in my programming endeavors. Please send me any useful advice a
> novice programmer might possibly benefit from; any help at all is
> appreciated! Thank you all very much, and I look forward to lively
> discussions and helpful suggestions in the future.
> So long for now,
> Philip CM..
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Get the Internet just the way you want it.
> Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
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3. Re: New Euphoria programmer
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I'm a thirteen-year-old in the US, and have recently
> started to program in Euphoria; that is, I've learned a bit about it. I
> haven't made any programs yet, but I think that this list will be helpful
> to me in my programming endeavors. Please send me any useful advice a
> novice programmer might possibly benefit from; any help at all is
> appreciated! Thank you all very much, and I look forward to lively
> discussions and helpful suggestions in the future.
> So long for now,
> Philip CM..
Welcome!
As far as useful advice, all I can say is:
1 ask lots of questions - people here are helpful.
2 start with something small, so that you aren't overwhelmed with
technical stuff that you aren't ready to tackle yet.
3 look at some of the programs on RDS's web site for ideas of what
other people are doing.
4. try not to start with Windows. DOS is much easier, and more versatile.
Regards,
Irv Mullins
4. Re: New Euphoria programmer
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Philip C Maurer wrote:
] Hello, everyone. I'm a thirteen-year-old in the US, and have recently
] started to program in Euphoria; that is, I've learned a bit about it. I
] haven't made any programs yet, but I think that this list will be helpful
] to me in my programming endeavors. Please send me any useful advice a
] novice programmer might possibly benefit from; any help at all is
] appreciated! [...]
Welcome to the Euniverse! I'm not around much longer, so I'll pass on some
good advice to the newcomer...
* Feel free to ask questions you feel are a little stupid. No-one here
bites your head off.
Even if you were to ask "I don't understand the '&' operator, what does
it do?", someone will tell you. (We might nibble a little if you ask
twice though! :) )
* The only people who fight here are the regulars who strongly disagree on
something (just like old men bickering ;) ), and deliberately obnoxious
people. Thankfully, there aren't any of the latter around at the
moment...
* The best way to learn Euphoria is to read the demo programs. The manuals
are useful too, but if you can follow the source code, you're off to a
flying start.
Read the shorter ones first. Run them in trace mode if you want to see
what they're doing. I think one of the demos is already set up to do
just that.
* Don't get put off if you read a post on this list that looks frightening
in its complexity. I still get scared reading the Win32 posts, and I've
been here at least 2_1/2 years! (I only wrote my first useful Win32
program on Monday).
* Euphoria isn't a hard language, so persevere if you keep getting stuck.
* ...but don't expect to be writing super-games or ultra-apps in a week...
* Finally; Don't forget: There's always someone on this mailing list
who's willing to help.
Have fun,
Carl
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