No, I said in the post before last that it's probably out of their price range. What can you code easily without buying anything? javascript?
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No, I said in the post before last that it's probably out of their price range. What can you code easily without buying anything? javascript?
These courses are at the community coll. level, not university level and they are specifically for newbies. That's why some of the colleges have Qbasic and some VB. I just want to learn Qbasic so that I can teach it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
Sorry, I don't know it myself. Not really used anymore, so I wouldn't know where to find a reference for it.
Why any college would want to teach, or any student would want to learn, such an out of date and limited language is beyond me, but here are some good online tutorials:
http://www.programmingtutorials.com/qbasic.aspx
All the .NET Express editions (VB, C#, J#, C++ and Web Developer) are free, and very powerful - there isn't that much more in the full Visual Studio package. I'm fairly sure that there is a free version of Delphi available too.Quote:
Originally Posted by jpnyc
Back in 85 I learnt COBOL and was told it was obsolete but was still widely used everywhere.
21 years later and the company I work at still uses it heavily.
I still dabble in basic on my Commodore 64 emulator, I think it's good for learning simple program structure and the like.
Probably more so for kids though.
You really only find it in mainframe programming in this country at least
Yes mainframe heavily in use still.
Worked out well for the Y2K kerfuffle too - I was given a 19% pay increase to hand around rather than be temepted to go elsewhere to fix other peoples mainframe code.
In the PC world though, QBasic is obsolete and isn'twidely used. Somehow I don't see the market for DOS programming reviving anytime soon either.