Re: I need help!
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) May 17, 2009
- 1210 views
I am reading David Gay's A beginner's guide to Euphoria II (ABGTE2), because I am completely new to programming, and found Euphoria. Some place on Rapideuphoria.com said if I was completely new to check it out, I'm still reading it, but I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?
Yes
What Derek means to say is, can you ask a more specific question?
Exactly. There are no stupid questions, but there are stupid answers - like the one I gave.
The first lesson here is that if want an answer to be useful, you really need to ask a useful question, and a way to do that is to tell use exactly what you have been trying and exactly what the results have been, and tell us what you are trying to achieve and then we might be able to get to the next point.
For example, you said "I don't know how to even make one of his demo programs. Can anyone help?". By this did you mean that you've never created a program of any sort before and don't have a clue about how to start?
Ok, I'm going to ask some questions here that might sound like I'm condescending, but as I know nothing of your background I have to ask some pretty basic stuff.
- Are you on Windows or Linux?
- Do you have a text editor?
- Have you used a text editor before?
- Have you downloaded Euphoria yet? (I assume you are talking about v3.1 Euphoria).
- Is it installed correctly?
- Run the Euphoria interpreter to see what happens.
- If running under windows, start a Command window and type in "exwc" at the prompt.
- If running under linx, start a Command console and type in "exu" at the prompt.
- If it is installed correctly, you should see something like ...
- Run the Euphoria interpreter to see what happens.
Euphoria Interpreter 3.1.1 for 32-bit Windows. Copyright (c) Rapid Deployment Software 2007 See http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/License.txt file name to execute?The "file name to execute" message is asking you to type in the name of a program source code file for it to run. You create a source code file with a text editor; this is your program.
A Euphoria program consists of one or more text files that contain the source code.
Ok, so is this enough of a start or is there something more that is still a problem for you. Just keep telling us what you are trying to do and asking questions here and people will try to help.
