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Offline soda72

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Re: revisting an old interest "computer programming"
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2009, 05:42:05 PM »
Quote from: indy007 on March 03, 2009, 07:53:57 AM
Soda, there are Express versions of every .Net language compiler on their site, free still.

hmmm I thought they did away with that.   I see they have c++, c#, and VB wrapped up in a nice single package. It also includes SQL Server 2005 Express not bad for a set of tools to try out to get your feet wet..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a22341ee-21db-43aa-8431-40be78461ee0


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Offline bozon

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Re: revisting an old interest "computer programming"
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2009, 07:03:01 PM »
If you want a good useful language and not mathematically heavy calculations, go with Python. Simple, easy yet powerful and it is free. It has an excellent fast growing community and many libraries to support uses from science to game programing.
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Re: revisting an old interest "computer programming"
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2009, 09:51:33 AM »
Quote from: soda72 on March 03, 2009, 05:42:05 PM
hmmm I thought they did away with that.   I see they have c++, c#, and VB wrapped up in a nice single package. It also includes SQL Server 2005 Express not bad for a set of tools to try out to get your feet wet..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a22341ee-21db-43aa-8431-40be78461ee0

Wrong page.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/

There's VB, VC++, VC#, VWebDev, Web Platform, & SQL 2008 as separate packages. Very convenient.
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Re: revisting an old interest "computer programming"
« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2009, 01:26:43 PM »
You can download Microsoft Robotics Studio for some fun programming practice. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx

Or even simpler is try out Terrarium .NET.   http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2
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Offline dkff49

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Re: revisting an old interest "computer programming"
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2009, 10:59:28 AM »
WOW

I downloaded the C# just to see what I was getting into and what a difference from what I remember. I knew that some things would change and in someways get a little easier but never expected programming to become a point and click. Of course the last time I did any programming you had to type all the lines in yourself but then again you had to load DOS then the program you wanted to run seperately, no hard drive.

This is definitely going to be a challenge but looks like it will be fun as well. I look forward to getting that material from Reschke too.

I am definitely going to be starting small then build form there. I haven't even started to look at the commands that are available. This is going to take a litte time.


Thanks for all your help guys
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