[IT:Software Devel.] What programming language did you use?

[Daniel15]

I'm just interested in what programming language everyone used in their IT: Software Development class.  The study design does not explicitly state a programming language, it simply says that you must use a programming or scripting language "that enables students to manipulate data, for example, Javascript, Actionscript, Visual Basic, Java, php"

I'm guessing that most people use Visual Basic 6 (ewww), but I thought it'd be interesting to see what other schools used. My school used Visual Basic 6, but my friend and I used Visual Basic 2005 instead

[Fitness]

I wanted to use Visual Basic ... But my school goes for Delphi.

[principe]

We used Visual Basic and the stupid technicians are couldn't even install it properly. There were errors and missing .dlls and everything. It was really bad.

[reg]

Imo restriction to Visual Basic is main reason I, and probably many others didn't /dont do VCE IT ..

[Collin Li]

Yeah, we used .NET in Information Systems (2005)

[squance]

What's C++++?? What does it do??? I know its a program but what does it do? I heard that if you study computer science at uni,you get to study C++++

[Daniel15]

Heh, I made Delphi an option in the poll just for fun, I didn't know that people actually used it still

What's C++++?? What does it do??? I know its a program but what does it do? I heard that if you study computer science at uni,you get to study C++++

C++ (only two pluses ) is a programming language that's basically an enhancement to the C programming language. It's one of the most popular programming languages.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++ for more details

Imo restriction to Visual Basic is main reason I, and probably many others didn't /dont do VCE IT ..

Haha, definitely

[cara.mel]

This is slightly off-topic but I figured the best place to ask it.

Ahmad posted somewhere about a site called projecteuler.net and I want to be able to solve the puzzles on it, without spending an hour with excel on the easy ones.
In IS we did visual basic.net, which is only on my old computer, and the last time I tried to use it about a year ago it didn't exactly work for some reason either xD

So because this C thing sounds cool, so I googled it. And apparently you need a compiler (makes sense). So I find off google this page: http://www.cprogramming.com/compilers.html so I try and download their recommended one.
So then I try copying and pasting variations on the 'hello world' message program and all the time when I try to run it this is down the bottom:

Project   : Console application
Compiler  : GNU GCC Compiler (called directly)
Directory : C:\Users\Mel\Documents\test\
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Switching to target: default
Linking console executable: C:\Users\Mel\Documents\test\console.exe
mingw32-g++.exe: no input files
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)

How do I fix it? =/

[Daniel15]

I think that means that you didn't actually tell it what to compile? What compiler are you using?

If you're a beginner, I'd suggest to use Microsoft Visual C++ Express, which is free from Microsoft (and is a compiler as well as IDE). IDE stands for "Integrated Development Environment", which is the program you write the script in. The compiler is what makes it into a Windows .exe file. Alternatively (instead of MSVC++), you might want to use a different IDE (for example, Code::Blocks as the IDE along with MingW as the compiler).

[cara.mel]

Alternatively (instead of MSVC++), you might want to use a different IDE (for example, Code::Blocks as the IDE along with MingW as the compiler).

I think that's the one I got xD
I didn't know microsoft were kind enough to make free stuff, I'll try that one. Ty
Edit: 68mb x_x will download that one in the morning then
Edit again: I tried following the instructions here: http://www.cprogramming.com/code_blocks/

[reg]

Code::Blocks is fucking terrible.

If you want to use an IDE, get dev c++, http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html (not beta 5, latest stable) , and use the MingW/GCC compiler.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T USE MS MANAGED C++.

Also, if you're kind of new to programming in general I 99999 strongly recommend you grab a book from your library on your language of choice (you can tell how bad the book is by how much it dedicates to GUI, and how many pictures it has lerl). I say this because if you learn C incorrectly, it is extremely unforgiving. There is no safety in your code, one little mistake can cost you many days of painstaking debugging.

But really, you should learn to use the console, and just compile things by hand.

For example, if your C++ program is in "program.cpp", and you want to compile it into a program called "test.exe", you'd (in a console), type (while in the folder) (sorry if im patronizing you, I dunno where you're at :p):

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g++ -o test program.cpp
or gcc if it's just a C program (C source files would end in .c).

[cara.mel]

No no that's very helpful. I am literally at the starting line

(I remember the jist of things from VB, and whatever we needed to know for the IS exam, thats it xD oh and how to do basic html/css in notepad but I doubt that counts for anything)

[Daniel15]

Code::Blocks is fucking terrible.

It's the best C IDE for Linux I've come across so far...
The daily builds are a lot better than the latest "release"

I didn't know microsoft were kind enough to make free stuff, I'll try that one. Ty

Yeah, they've got a line of "Express" tools (Visual Basic Express, Visual C++ Express) that are free. Relatively basic, but get the job done

[cara.mel]

Going through their tutorial:
Step 3 :

Now we are going to compile the project, and create a Windows executable.
Click on the Execute menu, and click on "Compile".
A dialog will ask you where do you want to save your file. Select a directory as well as a filename for your file and click on Save.
A windows titled "Please wait while compiling..." will appear. Dev-C++ is currently compiling the file. If you don't get any compile errors, you can click on the Execute button to launch the executable of your program.

If any error occurs, it will be displayed in the Compiler output panel (at the bottom of Dev-C++).
You can then double-click on it to go to the error in your source.

This is what I see:


I tried both the default thing that came up, and the 'hello' code

Thanks, btw ^_^