Learn to write code (Free MS Visual Studio Express)

[krashkart]

I've used it off and on where an API calls expressly for Visual Studio. I like it even if it lags my computer a bit.


Psst... try Devcpp, it's way better!

[SteamWake]

They are also evidently going to this buisness model with Microsoft Office as well.

[Thomen]

Just for kicks and giggles:

Should you have access to an .edu email, ea.. you are a student, you may want to take a look at https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

A lot of MS products (incl Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2) for free, if you are a student.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Psst... try Devcpp, it's way better!

Devcpp Now ive seen that somewhere - Borland C++ 4.5. Years ago Borland put out a free version of 4.5 I remember grabbing it off PC Plus Magazine cd and went out and brought the book 'Borland C++ for Dummies' , (yea what was I thinking buy a dummies book to learn programming!?!) long nights typing code from books, pages of the stuff just to get the app to do something simple. Then few years later tried Visual Basic and realize all that code i typed to make one app do a simple thing, was only a few lines with VB!

(Man im sad i always go for the freebies )

[PeriscopeDepth]

VS express has always been free as far as I know. And what developers use Windows??? Even the awesome .NET developers I know are using Mono on a Linux installation. The terminal on Windows is a joke compared to bash/ZSH.

PD

[aergistal]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

VS express has always been free as far as I know. And what developers use Windows??? Even the awesome .NET developers I know are using Mono on a Linux installation. The terminal on Windows is a joke compared to bash/ZSH.

PD

Well people don't usually get Windows for the terminal. And altough I enjoy bashing MS products from time to time I must say I'm happy with the fact that they decided to release Express for free (or better said forced to) and I've used it sucesfully for commercial Windows Only applications.

If I want cross platform compatibility there's always Java.

One major thing I don't like about .NET is that assemblies are easily disassembled back to the original source code. So obfuscation is a must for sensible releases. I was even forced to encrypt some but they're available at runtime anyway.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Devcpp Now ive seen that somewhere - Borland C++ 4.5. Years ago Borland put out a free version of 4.5 I remember grabbing it off PC Plus Magazine cd and went out and brought the book 'Borland C++ for Dummies' , (yea what was I thinking buy a dummies book to learn programming!?!) long nights typing code from books, pages of the stuff just to get the app to do something simple. Then few years later tried Visual Basic and realize all that code i typed to make one app do a simple thing, was only a few lines with VB!

(Man im sad i always go for the freebies )

Heh. I still have three old 'Dummies' books, one of which is for AppleScript. Yeah, I'm a closet Mac user. Sosumi.