[Gambas-user] Newbie

[K Windle]

Scott Castaline wrote:

> Rob Kudla wrote:
>
>> On Tue October 11 2005 14:40, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> It's been many years since I've done any kind of programming, my
>>> tech background is predominately been hardware. I am wondering if
>>> anyone can point me in the right direction for tutorial material or
>>> text books on BASIC, that would be relevant and current to GAMBAS.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Linux Format (a UK-based desktop-oriented Linux magazine, sadly quite
>> expensive when bought here in the US) is doing a monthly BASIC column
>> now using Gambas.  They jumped right in with their first issue with a
>> little database browser application.  Unfortunately, that's the only
>> tutorial I know of at present apart from some small and
>> badly-outdated ones on the Gambas wiki.  There's at least one
>> textbook that sounds like it's near completion, but it may be a
>> little while before you can buy one commercially. 
>> However, if you haven't done any programming in anything that looks
>> like Gambas, you may be able to use Visual Basic tutorials to at
>> least point you in the right direction.  Gambas is probably closer to
>> VB.net than VB6 or earlier, but I personally find it far less
>> annoying than either incarnation of VB.  A good grasp of
>> object-oriented programming will also be a huge help to you with
>> Gambas, since it's much more object-centric than VB is (but less than
>> Java.)
>>
>> But it's only been 9 months since Gambas 1.0 was first released, and
>> developer tools tend to either have to be heavily adopted or come
>> from a company called Microsoft to get Dummies(tm) books in their
>> first year.  I think before too long Gambas will start getting a lot
>> more attention, especially if version 2.0 somehow ends up working
>> under Windows without Cygwin.
>>
>> On a side note, on the same trip to the bookstore (Barnes and Noble)
>> on which I discovered the Linux Format BASIC column, I was wandering
>> by the computer section and noticed that the Linux stuff has been
>> moved out of the bottom rows of the developer section to a section by
>> itself with all the Dummies books and desktop-oriented books on the
>> top shelf at eye level.  Having just read earlier that day that Linux
>> was failing to meet analysts' 2001 predictions for desktop market
>> share, it was a nice confirmation that people are interested in
>> Linux, and not just to run their web servers: bookstores don't put
>> obscure hackers' toys on prominent display.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks for the response. Any personal suggestions on book
> titles/authors? There appears to be so many but as I've found in the
> past only a few are usually worth anything.
>
> TIA
>
> Scott
>
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Hmm not that im aware of, though i will make one small seggestion check
out www.realsoftware.com