Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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This is a "What the heck?" article...
Hobby with C++? dude... come on...
He finally mention Eclipse, almost as a footnote meantime filling 2/3 of the article with advertising...
And ofcourse, let's not forget Python...
I've been programming for like a decade and I've been through BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and Python.... always an evolution.
My advice, If your're looking for a programming hobby... get the following:
Python from:
http://www.python.org/
wxPython for GUIs from:
http://wxpython.org
and SciTE (got to have something to write the code with) from:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html
after that, join the mailling lists
http://wxpython.org/maillist.php
enter the IRC channels
#python, #wxpython on irc.freenode.net
and read some tutorials:
http://www.hetland.org/python/instant-hacking.php
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
No money... more fun