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Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language?
Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"
Dear Osama Bin Laden: Would you like to come to my bar mitzvah?
Dear Eagles fans: Would you be willing to sign Terrell Owens again?
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
I hate when people make statements sound like questions and vice versa?
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
*sniff* brings back memories of my first C program
./a.out
%
Segmentation Fault
%
and I can always tell the difference in code between a real programmer and Visual Studio Wizards
So can I. The #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " seems to be a bit of a giveaway, no?
a great user interface library in the form of Swing.
You really need to get out more..
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Oh come on. You know you commented it.
//Most people put <stdio.h> in this line after #include, but I can't due to a software patent. //Main function is run every time //Print "Hello World" and start a new line
#include
int main()
{ //Begin Main function
printf("Hello world\n");
} //End Main Function
Please don't associate those Java users with us C++ (and C for the procedural of us) users.
*shudders* I feel so dirty.
when you see the word 'Linux', drink!
You forgot to put your name, class, and project number up at the top of the file as comments. You will also lose point for not properly documenting the method's in and out parameters and how they might be modified. Finally, you also did not declare the "Hello World\n" as a constant to ease modification at a later point in time.
...or at least that was the way my first Hello World program was graded (although that was in C++).
You failed to notice that he doesn't *return* anything
from main, which is declared as 'int main'.
You fail the test!
Oh, you mean...?
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Segmentation Fault\n");
return 1;
}
I am anarch of all I survey.
Makes a great starter pet, too.
I am anarch of all I survey.
You introduced a bug ;)
That should return EXIT_FAILURE or something, not 1.