There are better options than QBASIC: Python or Delphi (Objective Pascal) come to mind. Even Java, at a stretch. These other languages employ more modern semantics and are also very useful skills. Note that the most recent version of Visual Basic (.Net, by no means a standard but still a good example of the constraints of BASIC) had to mutilate BASIC to make it better.

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There are better options than QBASIC: Python or Delphi (Objective Pascal) come to mind.

Sawing your own foot off is a better option than qbasic. Seriously, Python is a good choice, with the PyGame library, you''re ready to make games.

Take care,
Bill

Java is not bad, and since it has a very similar syntax to C++, you will find it easier to transition to c++ later on. Java also has lots of free documentation and ide''s (although they all seem to kind of suck). java.sun.com

c#

+++ Corvus +++

I wouldn''t recommend QBasic either. I spent time trying to learn it, and then realized there was so much I was missing with C++

However, for anyone who''s interested, here''s a link to Darkness Ethereal. Last I checked, they made QB RPGs (some pretty nice ones! though a little short). I think they might be moving to C now, not sure. Still, take a look if you''re interested in seeing some classic RPG goodness in Qbasic.

http://209.15.208.88/index2.html

Ok, like always there''s more than one option.

My suggestions are the following:

- Perl ( extremly kool if you''re defveloping for unix platforms
and if you like to create dynamic webpages, but also
good for other platforms )
It also allows you to do incerdible things, and that even if
you only know a small subset of the language.
It has also amazing text processing capabilities.
But also a somehow cryptic syntax ( but the syntax has also
borrowed many things from C ) sometimes, but that will
hopefully change with the next versions. And it''s a language
that allows you many different programming styles.

- Java
It has syntax very similar to C++ , and is maybe a little
bit easier to learn.

- C
That''s the language I learned first,
but if you wanna switch to C++ later on,
I wouldn''t recommend to learn C first.

learn something that you could at least use in the real world like java or something.

quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
learn something that you could at least use in the real world like java or something.

Which suggestions here cannot be used in the real world?

Viewing the Forum FAQ (deadline grunt''s, my new Beginners FAQ is coming soon), I see this:

quote: For Beginners Forum FAQ
Q. OK. I read Start Here. I still don"t know which langauge/API I should learn. What do I do?
A. For starters you DO NOT post questions like this (which has been done to death) and expect to get any kind of advice that is going to sway you one way over the other. Would you go to your local Super Mall and ask on a loud speaker what type of person you should date? Second only to prOn there is no other waste of bandwidth than these types of threads. What ever you do, nothing good can come from ??? vs ??? threads. period.

Lets not have a QBasic vs. The World flame war, ok.

quote: Original post by Michalson
Lets not have a QBasic vs. The World flame war, ok.

Or a "my favourite language is the coolest" thread. Everyone knows that my favourite language is the coolest.