Since we're on opinions, in my opinion c or c++ are not good languages to begin with. I believe from personal experience that it is best to start with something like basic, and then move on to languages like c or c++ where the concepts you learned from BASIC will help you advance in higher languages faster. Greg On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:48:35PM -0500, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hi Alex, > While BASIC sounds like a good starting language in my opinion it is > not. First, it is very non-standard (no two BASIC interpreters or > compilers are alike). Second, file i/o in most BASICs is really rather > painful. As far as I know, the only BASIC widely used in WINDOWS is > Visual BASIC which is hardly free! > > Jim Wantz > n Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > > > I would use, and want to learn, basic, if there was a free Compiler and/or > > IDE for basic under winblows. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:56 PM > > Subject: Re: free programming language > > > > > > > How about BASIC? > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:25:38PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am looking for a programming language for windows that is both free > > and easy to learn for a beginning programmer. Does such a language exist? > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
