Re: Lessons
  By: mark lewis to Gary Perkins on Fri May 06 2011 03:21 pm

 > i don't have anything like that... what we used to do, waaaaaay back in the
 > day, was to choose a small project and work on that... possibly just routine
 > that could be used in projects and then, in some cases, individual projects
 > were slightly modified for use in larger projects...

Understandable.  I was actually surprised to get a reply here!

 >  GP> I'm easily distracted; I learn best when I have someone/something
 >  GP> to follow along with.
 > 
 > i know that feeling... i have to have a need for something before i can code
 > anything ;)

Yep... I remember in high school when I was presented with a project and had
a clear goal in mind, I was pretty good at preparing the algorythm and
fleshing out the code.  Nowadays, I'm like...Ok...I *really* need to get back
into programming...I start reading books and online materials, but by the
time I'm halfway into the books, I haven't practiced much in between the
beginning and middle, and I get lost.  Those 24hr/48hr/30day books suck,
there's a reason schools spend months teaching these languages...lol

So far, I've tried C, Java, and Basic .NET.  I've already decided I do NOT
want to start in Windows; the IDE's I've tried *suck* for the beginner.

 > so... what pascal compiler are you using or wanting to use? are you looking 
 > target only one platform or multiple platforms? console text mode stuff only
 > GUI stuff or both?

FreePascal seems like a good choice.  It's current, and of course, free. 
Since I don't want to start out in Windows, Linux console seems like a good
choice.  I could maybe start with some BBS doors... after writing one or two
on Linux, I could try porting them with a doorkit to work on Windows bulletin
boards.  Once I get the coding down, I could start playing around with
Windows after that.

In your experience, on Pascal, which GUI is easier to code for?  X, or Win32?
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