i would really like to get into programing and makeing my own apps, but i dont really know where to start.for example what type of languages should i use, programs, etc. i started out with actionscript in flash and am good at it, but what should my next step be?
(oh and i didn't really know where to put this, so sorry if i put it in the wrong place)
Visual Basic is a good language to start out with for programming.
i was looking into that. would i have to get visual studio or are there any free alternatives?
Hej Dpsleep,
whenever I started to learn programming I learned "Turbo Pascal", well thats not state of the art today anymore. At school my programming class for beginners started with PHP. PHP is somewhat like C, but a lot less complex, however it is only a scripting language - you cannot make real apps, just webserver scripts. A friend of mine is starting programming at the University right now, they use Fortran 95.
When I continued my programming classes I started to learn C++, which gave me a hard time, because it isn't quiet the same like "Turbo Pascal", also I wasn't very motivated anymore. haha.
I think my advice to you is: Check out what you want to do. You want to do real windows apps "C#" or ".NET" will be the way to go for you. You would like to do apps that run on every plattform, try "Java". There are good tutorials and books (yes those still exist) on about every programming language, so please think about what your goal is and find a programming language then.
You could grab one of the free (for now) beta editions of MS's Visual Studio 2005 Express editions.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/
Visual Basic, C++, C# - 600mb+ each, so choose your weapon wisely.
Or for non-MS solutions, try the following google searches
wow, thanks for the help. i usually just read a book on the subject, but i never seem to lean anything. with actionscript what i did was get a decompiler and messed around with the program. and when i used the decompiler, i wasnt stealing script, i was useing them as examples. i would look at the code, try and figure it out (what each line did and what else it could do) and i learned pretty fast that way. so i think ill just download the program, mess with it and learn the same way i did with actionscript. i think ill start on visual basic. oh and i was also wondering what programs like avedesk and rklauncher use. those are the types of apps i would like to make, and i dont know if i need anything special for the types of effects they use. thanks again for the posts.
-dpsleep
I believe those are coded in C++.
I would stay away from visual basic and move directly into C++/C#
I never liked VB
and if you realy want to learn something about how your computer works, learn assembly 
Its great (but wont help you much in making apps) < I heart assembly
freeware C# IDE
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
understand AVE and rad.....(?) 
are programing gurus and you prolly wont do anything close to there opuses for quite some time.
I would stay away from visual basic and move directly into C++/C#I never liked VB
and if you realy want to learn something about how your computer works, learn assembly
freeware C# IDE
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
understand AVE and rad.....(?)
lol, i build computers as a side job 
. and i know i wont be able to get anywhere close to ave and radu, but if im going to take the time to learn a language, i would like to use whatever there useing cause those are the types of applications i would like to make in the future
lol, i build computers as a side job
assembly is a programing language. Its machine code (basicaly), programing exactly what gets sent to the CPU to preform the operation. It can be converted directly into binary without any compiling, more like translation
assembly is a programing language. Its machine code (basicaly), programing exactly what gets sent to the CPU to preform the operation. It can be converted directly into binary without any compiling, more like translation
wow, i am a ****. i thought he was talking about an assembly class for building computers or somthing. maybe i should re-think my head on take on learning code.
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