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piasabird · 10-31-2005, 04:38 PM

Go Crazy and learn XML. I think we will see this file type used a lot in a lot of applications on the Internet. Even the Dept of Educ is using it for their Software. It is a very interesting concept. It is used in files to make them object oriented and in Web Based Programming.

If you buy a new .net Visual Basic Compiler from Microsoft you will probably have a lot of functionaility. You will also have a C Compiler. There are free versions of C and C++ compilers developed by Linux people that will also work on Some Windows systems. C is a good language to learn. It is very basic and very much like Java. C++ is a very good language for using basic skills that are used in any programming language.

Java can be a really good language to learn, but it is a bit advanced when you start to get into the nuts and bolts of object oriented learning. It also has some tools for documenting programs. It is used a lot in Server Based Manipulations of data. It has not caught on that well for windows based programming, but it is fully capable and there are a lot of java2 for beginners books.

Java is freely available on the internet and from SUN.

There is not many jobs out there for programmers. People are more into Database Programming and development for business. My daughter was trying to convince me to send her to Daves School for Game Development in Florida.

I program in COBOL on the mainframe and in Envision on the Datatel Education Software and manipulate IBM Unidata Databases. Database technologies is the way to go.

10-31-2005, 04:38 PM	#10
piasabird Member (11 bit) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Confluence of the Mississippi and Misouri Rivers Posts: 1,242	Go Crazy and learn XML. I think we will see this file type used a lot in a lot of applications on the Internet. Even the Dept of Educ is using it for their Software. It is a very interesting concept. It is used in files to make them object oriented and in Web Based Programming. If you buy a new .net Visual Basic Compiler from Microsoft you will probably have a lot of functionaility. You will also have a C Compiler. There are free versions of C and C++ compilers developed by Linux people that will also work on Some Windows systems. C is a good language to learn. It is very basic and very much like Java. C++ is a very good language for using basic skills that are used in any programming language. Java can be a really good language to learn, but it is a bit advanced when you start to get into the nuts and bolts of object oriented learning. It also has some tools for documenting programs. It is used a lot in Server Based Manipulations of data. It has not caught on that well for windows based programming, but it is fully capable and there are a lot of java2 for beginners books. Java is freely available on the internet and from SUN. There is not many jobs out there for programmers. People are more into Database Programming and development for business. My daughter was trying to convince me to send her to Daves School for Game Development in Florida. I program in COBOL on the mainframe and in Envision on the Datatel Education Software and manipulate IBM Unidata Databases. Database technologies is the way to go. Last edited by piasabird; 10-31-2005 at 04:40 PM.