free programming language

[Gregory Nowak]

Since we're on opinions, in my opinion c or c++ are not good languages to begin with. I believe from personal experience that it is best to start with something like basic, and then move on to languages like c or c++ where the concepts you learned from BASIC will help you advance in higher languages faster.
Greg


On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:48:35PM -0500, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> While BASIC sounds like a good starting language in my opinion it is 
> not.  First, it is very non-standard (no two BASIC interpreters or 
> compilers are alike).  Second, file i/o in most BASICs is really rather 
> painful.  As far as I know, the only BASIC widely used in WINDOWS is 
> Visual BASIC which is hardly free!
> 
>      Jim Wantz
> n Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
> 
> > I would use, and want to learn, basic, if there was a free Compiler and/or
> > IDE for basic under winblows.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: free programming language
> > 
> > 
> > > How about BASIC?
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:25:38PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > I am looking for a programming language for windows that is both free
> > and easy to learn for a beginning programmer.  Does such a language exist?
> > > >
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