Programming?

[vlad01]

what about OS/2 ? surely that be useful these days.

[psyolent]

good old DOS. i started with 3.30, skipped 4, went to 5 then it was 6.22. seems like an eternity ago.

[psyolent]

OS2. best OS ever. did 1.3, 2.11, then Warp3. never did 4. used to enjoy running winOS2 with win3.11 on machines ANZ were big users of that, a long, long time ago.
we upgraded a site i managed from OS2 1.3 to Windows NT4 workstation. had to teach people to use a mouse by playing solitaire. while 1.3 could use the ps2 style mouse in the model PS2 mod 55s all the users never used em!

[Tazzi]

Really, all languages end up allowing you to make all the same things. Its just the syntax is different.

At uni, we learnt VB at first. My lecturer said he always stated with VB as its one of the easiest languages to start off to understand the major programming concepts.
In a following subject, we then moved to C# which was used in PC apps that needed to communicate to microcontrollers via serial. So C# was used in both visual studio and the micro.

Just need to stick to one language.. then if you have to change to another for a project (php, python ect) then they are all just a syntax change. The main thing you learn when programming, is problem solving.
My lecturer provided heaps of assignments which forced us to learn/problem solve, some of the projects off the top of my head were:
- debugging errored coding (Quick and easy in Visual studio)
- Fixing purposely flawed coding with mathematical errors
- Design an app that calculates the hypotenuse of a triangle
- Design an app that calculated ball trajectory including gravity, windspeed, air resistance ect.

Sometimes we were given parts of code, and other times absolutely nothing. It was to teach us how to pickup from other peoples work and also how to start from scratch.

[Jayme]

I agree with Tazzi,
Visual Basic is easier to learn for a beginner, but c# is very common in windows land these days. most things I come across are c# or a variant of C, even Arduino code is based on C, so if you want to do some coding in windows land, get yourself a copy of Visual Studio and learn some VB and C#

[vlad01]

OS2. best OS ever. did 1.3, 2.11, then Warp3. never did 4. used to enjoy running winOS2 with win3.11 on machines ANZ were big users of that, a long, long time ago.
we upgraded a site i managed from OS2 1.3 to Windows NT4 workstation. had to teach people to use a mouse by playing solitaire. while 1.3 could use the ps2 style mouse in the model PS2 mod 55s all the users never used em!

omg! hahaha