1. Help me plz...
Hello... My name Is Scott Husen and Im new to all parts of Euphoria. I
wanted to know If anyone could give me a little help, By email Instant
message or such. I know almost virtualy nothing about proggraming besides a
SMALL bit obout variables. If no one can help would anyone be willing to
point me in the right direction for a few practice programs or training
manuals for what looks like a neat programming language?! PLZ! I need help!
2. Re: Help me plz...
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> From: Scott_Husen <husen at EPIX.NET>
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Help me plz...
> Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:25 AM
>
> Hello... My name Is Scott Husen and Im new to all parts of Euphoria. I
> wanted to know If anyone could give me a little help, By email Instant
> message or such. I know almost virtualy nothing about proggraming besides
a
> SMALL bit obout variables. If no one can help would anyone be willing to
> point me in the right direction for a few practice programs or training
> manuals for what looks like a neat programming language?! PLZ! I need
help!
Hi Scott
First go to the Euphoria Web site and get The beginners Guide to Euphoria
it will be in the arrchives,it was Written by David Allen Gay and it is
simple to understand and use a must for beginners also Seq are the key to
understanding Euphoria so study them over and over then try to make little
modifications to the example programs like goto mydata.ex and try to put a
menu in it things like that second stay away form the windows part of
Euphoria until you understand the dos32 first because the windows is a
little bit more difficult to understand for beginners.Hope this helps
PS Hello to the list I was on the list awhile back (About 2 years ago) but
I am back on it now,does anyone know what happen to David Gay??
David Mosley
pmosley at infoway.lib.nm.us
3. Re: Help me plz...
Hello Scott,
>Hello... My name Is Scott Husen and Im new to all parts of Euphoria. I
>wanted to know If anyone could give me a little help, By email Instant
>message or such.
I see someone pointed you to "A Beginners Guide To Euphoria"
by David Gay. I've heard good things about this guide but if
you still feel you need more help then feel free to email me
and I'll provide what help I can. Another good source is the
refrence manual and library document:
\Euphoria\HTML\refman.html
\Euphoria\HTML\library.html
>I know almost virtualy nothing about proggraming besides a
>SMALL bit obout variables.
Variables are a good place to start. In Euphoria there are
only 2 kinds of variables: ATOMs and SEQUENCEs.
Atoms are just single numbers such as: 1, -5, 0.01, -93.25
A special kind of atom is the integer. Integers are any whole
numbers: 1, 2, 3, 0, -1, -3, 100, -111.
Sequences are lists. These lists can be lists of atoms or
lists of other lists or any combination thereof. A sequence
can have any number of items (called elements) and even the
sequences within sequences can have more sequences in them.
The sequence is very flexible this way.
If you want more help like this then let me know. Otherwise
just read ABGTE(2) and/or write this Euphoria mailing list
for help.
later,
Lewis Townsend
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4. Re: Help me plz...
Thankyou both of you that is helpful. I have read most of David Gay's
tutorial program but dont seem to find myself understanding how to run the
editor and create a simple program and running it, or creating very simple
graphical imiges. Can anyone please give me a little more help? Sorry for
any bother about my obvious stupidity. :)
5. Re: Help me plz...
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Sep 22, 2000
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Last edited Sep 23, 2000
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Scott_Husen wrote:
> Thankyou both of you that is helpful. I have read most of David Gay's
> tutorial program but dont seem to find myself understanding how to run the
> editor and create a simple program and running it, or creating very simple
> graphical imiges. Can anyone please give me a little more help? Sorry for
> any bother about my obvious stupidity. :)
If you have installed Euphoria according to the directions, you should be able
to type 'ed' at a DOS prompt (without the quotes), hit enter, and get a message
back:
file name:
This indicates that the Euphoria editor is running. If you don't get this, then
the installation was not done correctly, and you'll have to try again.
Otherwise, type 'hello.ex' and hit enter
You should see a bar at top of screen, saying:
hello.ex (new file) Esc for commands
In the blank space below, type:
puts(1, "Hello World")
hit ESC, then w to write the file to disk, then
ESC and e to execute the program you have just written.
The screen should clear, and the following appear:
Hello World
Press Enter...
If you get this, then it's working, Try running the demo programs, reading the
source, and maybe making small changes, so that you have a basic understanding
of Euphoria syntax before trying graphics and other less than simple things.
Irv
6. Re: Help me plz...
- Posted by Mark Brown <mabrown at SENET.COM.AU>
Sep 26, 2000
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Last edited Sep 27, 2000
Hi Scott
If you are using Euphoria only with DOS then the "ee" editor by David Cuny
(or better still, the improved version by Carl White) would seem a better
bet.
It has the look and feel of Edit with nice Euphoria specific features.
I use "MEdit" under windows, which although it is a little buggy, is still a
nice
little editor. I use an older version than the current one as the most
recent
version has a bug that causes scrolled text to scramble/disappear
(on my system anyway). The earlier bugs are easier to cope with!
You should be able to run your code directly from these editors.
Both are available via the RDS page.
Good luck
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott_Husen" <husen at EPIX.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Help me plz...
> Thankyou very much... but by the time you replyed to the message I was
> usind edit.com in MS-Dos whitch do you sugjest, edit.com or ed in
Euphoria?
7. Re: Help me plz...
I use a NotePad-variant that comes with MASM (wich is freeware). It can
handle files of any size and shows line-numbers, just like DOS's Edit (very
important). Its only weakness is that it doesn't have syntax-colouring.
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8. Re: Help me plz...
On 26 Sep 2000, at 15:18, mic _ wrote:
> I use a NotePad-variant that comes with MASM (wich is freeware). It can
> handle files of any size and shows line-numbers, just like DOS's Edit (very
> important). Its only weakness is that it doesn't have syntax-colouring.
I use Textpad ( http://www.textpad.com/ ) which does now have syntax coloring,
cause
it's configureable. And i was confused by something in the Eu editors, i think (
i could
be not remembering correctly) last time i tried to run one, it complained about
not
having files, so i promptly shut it down and went back to Textpad, which was
open and
running. Textpad can handle many multi-megabyte files at the same time, with
most of
the nice editing goodies you'd expect in a text editor.
Kat
9. Re: Help me plz...
Thankyou very much... but by the time you replyed to the message I was
usind edit.com in MS-Dos whitch do you sugjest, edit.com or ed in Euphoria?
10. Re: Help me plz...
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Scott_Husen wrote:
> Thankyou very much... but by the time you replyed to the message I was
> usind edit.com in MS-Dos whitch do you sugjest, edit.com or ed in Euphoria?
Neither:.
Dave Cuny's EE is a far easier to use and better all-round editor than either
edit.com or ed. Also, there's Carl White's version of EE, with several nice
improvements.
Any of these are available from the RDS webpage
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/contrib.htm
Regards,
Irv
11. Re: Help me plz...
Scott:
All text editors suggested by our colleagues are quite adequate and
relatively easy to master. However, my personal favorites are:
For the DOS (and also OS/2) environment: Borland's Brief, an excellent and
very powerful editor, somewhat similar to the Unix standard vi, but far
easier to manage. It is by far the most complete and fastest I've ever used.
It's a commercial program, not freeware, but it has been discontinued for
some years now. A swift visit to www.borland.com doesn't find any mention of
it, so maybe, just maybe, you can find a copy. If not, there are several
more modern editors which emulate Brief, but I can't vouch for their
adequacy.
As for Windows, my all time favorite is NoteTab by Eric G.V. Fookes. It's
freeware, unless you activated some special features which turn it into
time-limited shareware, but you really won't need to (anyway, it's rather
cheap). You can find it at www.notetab.com.
Good luck !
(and don't forget to RTFM ...)
Gerardo
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12. Re: Help me plz...
My two cents worth...
On Windows 95/NT I use EditPlus (version 2) - visit:
http://www.editplus.com/
for the full low down. It can handle multiple open files of many megabytes
in size plus loads of other stuff which, ironically, I never seem to
need/use 
Regards,
Andy Cranston.
