You can get free, legal copies of old Borland products (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C) from the Borland Museum http://community.borland.com/museum/
Try pascal. There are a lot of first programming books in Pascal that you will find in used book stores (*cheeeap*) and public libraries. IMHO, its better than Basic, as Basic can lure you into all kinds of bad habits. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No it's not a joke Tim... It's a very common first program for beginers > that could apply to any language... Maybe you should start with BASIC. If > you have an old copy of Microsoft's DOS start Qbasic from the command line > and start hacking away. Failing that get an old copy of Visual Basic if you > can such as Ver 3.0 or 4.0... That's the way I started out... With QBasic, > then VB, then C, then C++ and so on to where I am today with Java. > > Java is fairly easy but you need a sound basis in object oriented > programming and the syntax is kind of cryptic... BASIC is more procedural > in nature and the syntax is easier for beginners... That's why it's called > Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. > > Greg. > > ______________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire� [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Democracies die behind closed doors," - Judge Damon Keith __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
