Question for Programmers

[radiant]

Ok so i am in my IT class we are currently learning HTML and JAVA script.
Its all pretty easy so far.
But this lesson that i had was really a nightmare.

So there i am with the my 150 lines of code (nothing special most of it is image/URL linkings/tables and loads of buttons )
I then went to preview my work and nothing showed up NOTHING.
And yes i did start/close it off with </body> </html>
So there i was spending 20 min looking at each line.
And then wouldent you know it i forgot to put the ";"
in line 75.

So have this ever happen to you?

in either C,C++, java or javascript

[matej]

That's the most common typo ever and the reason why we love Python

Ofcourse you wouldn't loose 20 min starring at lines in C++, Java... because the compiler (or IDE) would warn you about that.

[kloczas]

If you work with HTML/xHTML and javaScript I recommend you to use Netbeans - just download the latest version for PHP from official download page. It very easily finds most of possible errors you could make I use it from some time now and I'm more than happy with it. You should definitely check it out

[grimm]

Welcome to the wonderful world of programming. The first computer teacher I had told us the following analogy:

On the back of a bottle of shampoo you will find a set of instructions.

1) Apply shampoo, lather, rinse.
2) Repeat.

If you were to give these instructions to a computer and asked it to run them, the computer would keep doing step 1 forever. At least until it ran out of shampoo, or hair, then it would crash.

Computers will always do exactly what you say and never what you mean.

[radiance]

quickbasic -> turbo pascal -> C -> C++

that's the way to get were I am, in a 10 year time frame,
ditch the html/javascript. you'll grok it anyway if you do the above.
then you just study the physics from lots of books, locking yourself in your bedroom for 6 months with enough dry food.

You'll emerge a new person.

However, to run a project like octane you need to make a choice between it or a family.

Radiance

[radiant]

Yeah my school is teaching us HTML and java so i need to know it to get a A in IT.
Even tho i always get As in IT.

But yeah i might start to learn some C++ now.
I just dont know where to start.
I have the bloodshed Complier somewhere on my HD

[SamPage]

But yeah i might start to learn some C++ now.
I just dont know where to start.
I have the bloodshed Complier somewhere on my HD

Since you are in school for IT, its pace may be a bit remedial for you, but I found C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata to be an absolutely fantastic resource. C++ was my first OOP language, and that book was a great introduction.

As for IDEs, you can get the express edition of Microsoft Visual Studio for free, it just doesn't come with MFC. There are certainly other IDEs, but VS's ubiquity can be comforting in terms of support, and a wide variety of 3rd party add-ons, SDKs, etc. integrate easily.

[radiant]

i will look in to that when i get back from school
Cheers

[Jaberwocky]

Good God

I remember when they used to compile using assembly language down to native code rather than the raft of Net Languages now that use Pseudo Code to compile down to Just in time code.Still when you were trying to get things onto a 48K Sinclair Spectrum you had little choice.Nowdays with the multicore processors and the GB's of ram available.It's probably no longer that important.