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That is... perfect. I love you ;)

Easy tiger! The Java section has been quite helpful to me, and the VB. I was awesome in VB ~10 years ago but must have bumped my head 'coz it was all gone a while ago when I had to debug code on some internal applets at work. Couple of hours with Bucky and it all came back, so go on ahead and do some tutorials
 
Easy tiger! The Java section has been quite helpful to me, and the VB. I was awesome in VB ~10 years ago but must have bumped my head 'coz it was all gone a while ago when I had to debug code on some internal applets at work. Couple of hours with Bucky and it all came back, so go on ahead and do some tutorials

It's easy cougar in the C tutorials ;)

Really though, that is brilliant. I mean, everything else i've tried i've got through the basic 'Hello World' then went on to the next chapter and run away screaming. This i understand perfectly, i even have a few ideas about how to apply it already. What's more he's got someone (good) working on 200 Android tutorials :D
 
Hey PermaBand,

I remember when I had to make a choice like this for what language I wanted to learn, the best thing to do is to think about things like:

- What do I want out of this?
- Do I want a career in this industry?
- How much time am I willing to commit to this?

If your just a hobby developer then I would look at just using Visual Basic.NET or if you want a little challenge try the slightly harder c#. If you want to start developing games for major corporations such as Infinity Ward or Treyarch then I would definitely suggest learning C++ - It is at the heart of almost every game these days, however it's not for the feint hearted and you can't just rush into it. If you don't want to spend a lot of time learning things about the language then I suggest you just develop in c# or VB.NET. However if you are willing to put a lot of time into the learning process then you should start learning Java or C++,

Hope this helps you a bit,
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Learn X in 24 hours

Teach yourself C++ in 21 days:

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Aren't 99% of those "For Dummies.." books regarded as being terrible? Much like "Learn X in 24 hours books."

Well this one does have the odd thing the author has had to correct on his website, such as specific things now considered bad practice, but that's to be expected anyway. I think it's rather good.
 
Okay - first 'run to OcUK for help' post (and basically the first hurdle), but after watching Bucky's C tutorials and understand most of it i feel like giving C++ a go. Thing is he recommends Dev-C++ as a compiler/IDE. I hear that might not be a great choice since it doesn't seem to have been updated in five years and i can't find it in any repos (compiling from source sucks, unless it's from the AUR).

So, any recommendations? :)
 
C is more than fine. Get learning how to do things and don't even consider devc++, get MS Visual Studio or GCC if you're running nix.
 
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Okay - first 'run to OcUK for help' post (and basically the first hurdle), but after watching Bucky's C tutorials and understand most of it i feel like giving C++ a go. Thing is he recommends Dev-C++ as a compiler/IDE. I hear that might not be a great choice since it doesn't seem to have been updated in five years and i can't find it in any repos (compiling from source sucks, unless it's from the AUR).

So, any recommendations? :)

I believe you can download Visual Studio for free which probably the best IDE. There are also C/C++ plugins for Eclipse and another open source IDE called Code::Blocks.

If you want a text editor check out Emacs and Vim.
 
I think GCC is a package that's installed by default on most distros. I was hoping to avoid Vim, good as it is it takes almost as much learning as what i'd want to do with it, but you know... nothing ventured and all :)
 
I've found Netbeans to be good for Java and PHP so I imagine coding C++ with it would be alright :)

Notepad++ is pretty nice to have around too.
 
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