Re: restart after long time
- From: "Ed Prochak" <edprochak@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 May 2006 14:20:11 -0700
Harmonica Lover wrote:
It's been 20 years since I did any programming which was for college
courses. I'm looking to just hobbying around. Back in the days when I
did, it was punch cards and then terminals. I've no experience what so
ever in programming in a Windows environment and admit the idea of
messing around with windows or environments does have me intimidated.
I enjoyed Pascal programming, disliked the detail of assembly level
programming (Motorola 8086).
Boy your memory is cloudy. If it was Motorola, the you like did the
6800,
OR you did an intel 8086 (about the right timeframe.)
I'm using Window XP. Just thinking about graphics programming gives me
a severe headache, if you can remember the peeks and pokes of Commodore
64's.
My fiddling around will probably be with carrying on a conversation
with a computer (typed) and maybe some playing around with designing a
lottery program. Would like something that compiles rather then
interpets. But it will probably be a long time before I actually need
the speed of a compiled programmed. I'm not looking to become code
guru. Just something to kind of remove the cobwebs from the brain.
Maybe spend an hour or two with three or four times a week.
Don't really want to spend to more then $150. Would like to find
something that has a quick return on effort. That is sit down load the
package. Type something in and 30 minutes to 2 hours later some
program is executing that I can get a thrill out of.
I have to reiterate that I am very intimidated by the thought of
working in a windows environment. I don't have a Linux system or
partition and don't think I would want to spend the time and energy to
set one up.
Any input about a suitable language or package would be much
appreciated.
Thank you,
Jim
A few options:
C programming in a DOS text WINDOW
(very close to what we had back then.)
VISUAL BASIC programming in WINDOWS
(though the price migh be above your limit)
programming in LINUX in a partition on your machine
LINUX including C and other compilers/languages is free and can install
in dualboot configurations easily. You have a wide choice of languages
to use from scripting interpreted languages like PERL and TCK/TK to
compiled languages like C.
HTH,
ed
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