beginner to C programming

[Ogi]

hello everyone,

i'm starting to get involved in programming. I decided to learn C modeling after a friend of mine who i consider a great programmer ... i have cgywin and am using the gcc command line compiler to help me learn my code...

i'm considering moving to a visual C++ compiler to help me get some more "awarding" programs into use (just to keep the motivation up).

I am seeing some visual C++ version 5 for pretty cheap on ebay, and i'm wondering if going for version 6 would be *worth it*. Keep in mind i'm only entry level (only doing variables, a handful of functions, loops and stuff like that). thanks for any advice you may have

Ogi

 

[AFB]

I hate MS IDEs(They always love to hide the complie button :| ). That being said, I recomend you look at Dev-C++.

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html


Free and it is perfect for what you need. Now are you sure I couldn't interest you in learning Java instead?:evil:

 

[singh]

I'd get a newer version, especially if you want to move to C++ later on (VC5 and 6 lack support for many advanced C++ features). The newer versions also have vastly better compilers that produce better (faster) code.

 

[AFB]

They give the command line complier away for free, do a Google search on it.

 

[dfi]

Use dev-c++ if you are on windows. I am quite fond of it thus far. It is free, works well, and takes little system resources.

Your other free options are eclipse with CDT or borland c++ builder. I really would not recommend either one over dev-c++, and definitely not eclipse if you have a slower system.

I haven't used dev-c++ as much as I have used visual c++ 6. But so far, dev-c++ seems to be faster in general, and has crashed far less (0) times than visual c++ 6. And it's free.

dfi

 

[Ogi]

loving the "Free" aspect.

i do use a command line compiler currently but as i said before i wanted soemthing where every now and then i could "treat myself" to some windows based stuff and didn't think the command line stuff would work out too well....

and no i'm not too interested in java script thank you though

Ogi

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: Ogi
loving the "Free" aspect.

i do use a command line compiler currently but as i said before i wanted soemthing where every now and then i could "treat myself" to some windows based stuff and didn't think the command line stuff would work out too well....

and no i'm not too interested in java script thank you though

Ogi

I'm pretty sure amdfanboy was referring to Java and not Javascript.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: jman19

Originally posted by: Ogi
loving the "Free" aspect.

i do use a command line compiler currently but as i said before i wanted soemthing where every now and then i could "treat myself" to some windows based stuff and didn't think the command line stuff would work out too well....

and no i'm not too interested in java script thank you though

Ogi

I'm pretty sure amdfanboy was referring to Java and not Javascript.

Yeppers, Java != JavaScript. I hate JavaScript.

 

[Ogi]

perhaps as another langauge, i don't want to try so much to be an expert in 1 language but i want to have a good understanding of them all, i will probably get around to java later but i think C will give me the best building blocks for the other programming languages out there.

Ogi