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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I used to be a Windows kid. *sigh*. I got a copy of Visual C++ 6 with some book and I had learned how to use it. It was a truly great IDE. I especially loved their word-completion feature.
But then I switched to Linux. Where the hell was the compile button!? Since switching to Linux, I've learned a lot about GCC, linking and other things Visual C++ kept from my view.
Honestly, I'd say most hobbiest programmers only really need Kate, which is just a standard text editor with syntax highlighting,the ability to open and view several files at the same time, and a built-in shell. I've seen lots of hobbiest programs, and their source code, and it's usually not too large and not to hard to find what you are looking for in the source.
As far as hobbiest programming languages go, I really can't comment. I started in LOGO and BASIC in elementary school, and then just learned C++. LOGO teaches you that the computer does what you tell it, no more, no less, and BASIC teaches you about procedural programming, no more, no less.