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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by barky.

Hello all,

I have only recently become interested in programming, and came across purebasic by accident. Would you reccomend it as a good language for a bald-faced beginner? Also, how would I begin to learn it? The few tutorials I found assumed previous knowledge. Should I buy a book on programming in Basic? Thanks all!

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fweil.

Welcome barky,

I suppose you will not find a good library book to start better than reading threads on this forum.

You have several web sites for helping you in finding small and larger programs examples, tricks'n tips and reading messages here is a nice experience.

Maybe you will have your first questions at a low level but just try to go on with questions, and you will probably find one that will answer and help you in starting.

Then examples, either in the PureBasic package or on the forum (tricks'n tips) are sometime more difficult, but generally easy to understand. At least are these examples most of the time easy to 'run and see'.

I am not sure that finding paper books will help you so much IMHO.

One way to start in learning software coding is to define yourself a goal ... just think to one possible simple and easy program you would like to do. It can be anything you want but simple.

Using code examples and eventually asking some questions here will help you fast and well to success in coding it.

Anyway be sure that PureBasic can do anything you can imagine. Starting with some easy drawing or some gadget use would be really accessible to you with a few help.

Come back with questions here or by email as you prefer.

Rgrds



Francois Weil
14, rue Douer
F64100 Bayonne

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Art Sentinel.

Hello barky,

PureBasic, and programming in general, is less difficult and more rewarding than you would ever suspect! Do not let anyone intimidate you with cryptic jargon, or try to discourage you by talking two levels over your head just so they can pat themselves on the back and maintain a false sense of eliteness. The kind people you will find on this forum will always be happy to lend you some help whenever possible. Everyone starts as a beginner. What is more important than where you start is where you are tomorrow compared to where you were yesterday.

I would highly recommend you you purchase Purebasic. The price is amazing, the power is seemingly limitless, and the community is one of a kind. PureBasic is under constant development. It will grow as your programming skills grow. If you ever reach a limit to everything PB can do, email me; because I have been using it professionally for a long time now and I cannot even see the finish line with the Hubble Telescope! Haha..

As for how to start learning about programming, my suggestion is to start programming with Javascript. (I just heard a million programmers shriek in pain when I wrote that.) Javascript is so popular and so widely supported, you will find 1000's of tutorials easily on the net. There are many fantastic Freeware tools and editors, and it is very simple to test your code in any new browser. It is not PureBasic--it is not supposed to be PureBasic. What it is, is an easier way to become comfortable with programming concepts, structuring of code, and logical routines. Once you start thinking like a programmer, you will catch onto PureBasic in a heartbeat! It is all the same thing, barky. The only thing that changes is the dialect.

I sincerely hope this helps you to get started. And don't forget to buy PureBasic right now. The updates are free! Nothing I have found yet is as powerful and equally as enjoyable.

Take care,

- Art Sentinel
http://www.artsentinel.net

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kale.

my suggestion is to start programming with Javascript.

i completely agree, javascript is very lightweight and quick to use, the only drawback being you will have to learn a little HTML to create your web-based apps, but thats easy enough. what you learn using javascript will give you a good grounding for all languages. as Art Sentinel puts it, The only thing that changes is the dialect. (i.e. you know how to speak english and you could also speak french if only you knew the words.) The only thing different with purebasic is you have a main loop, whereas javascript is a script language and is executed from top to bottom and really doesn't have a main loop where everything is processed it relies on the browser from which it is executed to provide the events it captures and processes.

I personally started with javascript reading 'Sams Teach Yourself Javascript v1.3 in 24 Hours' which i thought was going to be crap! but was very good. I then tried wrapping my head around C++, but to be quite honest C++ was far to complex for what i wanted to program (i may go back to it later, ...maybe ) I then got into basic's with PureBasic being the latest one i have tried and to be quite honest by far the greatest. The only problem i have found with PureBasic is that it is not advertised nearly enough, i mean it practically wipes the floor with others and yet hardly anybody has heard of it . Anyway back to the point, Javascript is only an idea, you may try starting with that or just start using PureBasic, which ever you choose, you will learn more by setting youself goals and then set out to achieve them by asking questions.

have fun

--Kale

New to PureBasic and falling in Love!

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Danilo.

I started with BASIC on KC85 and C64.
I just tried everything and read the
manual for it. Thats all needed.

Nowadays, with internet and such forums
here, it must be much easier to get you
started.

JavaScript? Ummm..

cya,
...Danilo

(registered PureBasic user)

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by barky.

Thanks all,

Clearly, the forum is as helpful as you say it is. Your responses answer my question very well - I'll probably "see" you in the forum later.

-Barky