G+_Keron Cargill Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 i am a new college student who is currently learning programming from a beginners level but it seems difficlut. is there anyone who can help me?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nate Follmer Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Sure Keron... That's actually the whole point of this show and group :) Did you have any specific questions? You're post is very broad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Frank Nolan Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 According to my experience from home while programming with vb.net the sooner you learn about using flow charts with if statements, loops, dims and random number generators, etc the closer you will get to becoming a better problem solver. Math is only part of the puzzle to solving problems but it's not always the complete solution, that's where computer programming often comes in especially with A.I. , good luck! :-) Anything else I can suggest is for you to google search dotnet rocks, it's a great podcast that I find to be fun and educational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 It is a very big install, but I can highly recommend Delphi and CBuilder, available together as part of RAD Studio. If you are looking for free (or working form non-Windows environments), then Lazarus / Free Pascal is a little buggy, but a great way to start learning. Pascal was designed as a teaching language, and is a great way to learn the basics to jump off to other languages (and some never leave!). Both environments are well supported, very forgiving, and lightning fast. RAD Studio's "Delphi" was written by the same guy that wrote C#, and is still the defacto standard of what the others (including C#) wish they could do. Even for experts, there is simply no faster or easier way to create programs, and the results are blazingly fast. You probably wont gain any friends using this solution, and you may get laughed at, but you will learn FAST, and that is the whole point, right? FWIW, I use almost all languages, on all platforms, and Delphi is usually my first pick whenever possible. This recommendation comes unbiased, even though I was once on the team. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_LeMar Longhurst Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Delphi and CBuilder are now sold by a company called Embarcadero and they are very expensive. I used to use them but when the price went up to over a thousand dollars I had quit.? there are however substantial discount for students of educational institutions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Have you tried Lazarus? it is a free Delphi knockoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_LeMar Longhurst Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Joe Hecht Where to find this lazurus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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