Where to start on beginner programming?

[2lss]

After reading so much about bacon I decided to give it a try and I must say, I am really impressed! I downloaded the ide and made a few 'hello world' programs easy as pie. My only gripe is that you never get to see the c code between converting and compiling. Other than that, I like it

wish me luck

Good Luck!

[gerry]

@Invisible_Hobo737- that's Puppy Linux!

gerry

[disciple]

You could learn tcl/tk or gnocl and write a killer app to make people bring tcl back

[vovchik]

Dear 2lss,

You can generate the c code and inspect it by passing bacon the -n option. The documentation file describes all the switches. It can also create shared libs and other objects.

Good luck.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[pa_mcclamrock]

You could learn tcl/tk or gnocl and write a killer app to make people bring tcl back

I learned programming, starting from zero knowledge, with Tcl/Tk. I picked it because it was the easiest general-purpose programming language I could find, including the easiest to produce a GUI in, and there was no wretched compiling required. After some initial difficulties arising from the fact that I didn't know anything about programming, it became almost as easy to write the programs and run them as to write HTML code and display it in a browser. Later on I picked up Gnocl so I could produce a GTK+ GUI using easy Tcl commands. Details available here: http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/icebox.html#Tcl/Tk. Programs, which I think have pretty comprehensible code that should help you learn the language, available here: http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/papenguinspacks.html.

[disciple]

If anyone does look at tcl they might also like to check out some of Rarsa's old programs - e.g. the tcl/tk tray volume control and the gnocl volume mixer.