introduction to coding, suggestions needed

[ricardo.santos]

Hi everyone!

As i have some spare time at the moment im trying to learn how to code simple aplications.

I never coded before and im willing to give it a shot but i need opinions on wich programs to use.

For example i noticed that nero release a audio conversion command line tool and im would like to make a very simple gui a gui for it.

Ive searched the web and Autoit has been referenced as easy to learn.

Can anyone suggest a simple program and if possible "templates" so that i can start investigating how to do a Gui?


Im not trying to do a professional aplication just something for me to start off.

Thanks

[berrinam]

I don't know much about AutoIt, but it seems that it is specifically designed for running other applications. This probably (but, not having used it, I can't say for sure) means that it doesn't have much flexibility as far as other programming goes.

You could try some of the Microsoft .NET languages. These are quite powerful and easy to learn, and Microsoft now distributes free compilers/IDEs for them. Go either for C# or VB.NET, and you can get Microsofts free version (Microsoft C# 2005 Express Edition) by doing a search. MeGUI and xAnime are written in C#; StaxRip is written in VB.NET. You could have a look at any of the code you can get from these, and there are a lot of C# tutorials around the web.

[ricardo.santos]

Thanks berrinam!


just downloaded the VB.NET free edition, it seems i have a lot to learn lol.

Cheers