About Turbo C
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Hi,all. I'm a Chinese college student.I'm studying Computer Sciene in a school in China. The problem is almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course. And thus, almost all beginners think the Turbo C is the essence of learning C language,and they start by using it.Still a lot of people think that Turbo C is the main developement tool.And for C++ beginners , they also think that they should beginner with Turbo C. So,What do you think of this problem?Does this create problems? What do use when you a beginner? And What compiler do you think is suitable for a beginner?
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Hi,all. I'm a Chinese college student.I'm studying Computer Sciene in a school in China. The problem is almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course. And thus, almost all beginners think the Turbo C is the essence of learning C language,and they start by using it.Still a lot of people think that Turbo C is the main developement tool.And for C++ beginners , they also think that they should beginner with Turbo C. So,What do you think of this problem?Does this create problems? What do use when you a beginner? And What compiler do you think is suitable for a beginner?
There is no real reason to use Turbo C. I used it 10 years ago. Compared to Visual Studio or Borland Builder it is quite primitive with just the basic stuff and does not have any RAD at all. I don’t even believe you can make a 32 bit windows program with that version so it's use is limited. But I bet you can get it very cheap. John
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Hi,all. I'm a Chinese college student.I'm studying Computer Sciene in a school in China. The problem is almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course. And thus, almost all beginners think the Turbo C is the essence of learning C language,and they start by using it.Still a lot of people think that Turbo C is the main developement tool.And for C++ beginners , they also think that they should beginner with Turbo C. So,What do you think of this problem?Does this create problems? What do use when you a beginner? And What compiler do you think is suitable for a beginner?
yndfcd wrote: almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course Why don't the use GCC? Its modern, and is crossplatform, and its *free*. <political statement>Oh well, this is China. Officials might not like things that are free</political statement>
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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yndfcd wrote: almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course Why don't the use GCC? Its modern, and is crossplatform, and its *free*. <political statement>Oh well, this is China. Officials might not like things that are free</political statement>
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
What is GCC ? is it available for download ?
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What is GCC ? is it available for download ?
GCC is the 'GNU compiler collection', a series of compiler frontends for different languages in combinations with backends for a real lot of processors. For all major systems (like Win32) are ready made distributions using the frontend (e.g C and C++) and backend (intel/amd processors) available. Look here[^] and go to 'GNU projects'. Hope this helps.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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GCC is the 'GNU compiler collection', a series of compiler frontends for different languages in combinations with backends for a real lot of processors. For all major systems (like Win32) are ready made distributions using the frontend (e.g C and C++) and backend (intel/amd processors) available. Look here[^] and go to 'GNU projects'. Hope this helps.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
Thank you alot.. but what about the IDE ? I realized (from the web site) that GCC is a command line only utility.. any alternatives ?
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Thank you alot.. but what about the IDE ? I realized (from the web site) that GCC is a command line only utility.. any alternatives ?
Yes, gcc is command line only. Tere is nothing to beat the VisualStudio if you are into seamlessly integrated MSDN or extensive wizards to do your code for you. VC++ is cheap(er) for students. But if you want an editor with syntax-highlighting and possibilities for starting a build, I can recommend SciTE or UltraEdit or any other of a multitude of programmers editors. Take your pick. I have no idea if there are any good Open Source IDEs. Eclipse (while made primarily for Java) seems to work with C++. So, I hope to have drowned in possibilities... Off topic:If you like to learn C#, I recommend SharpDevelop. Free and very good.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Hi,all. I'm a Chinese college student.I'm studying Computer Sciene in a school in China. The problem is almost all school use Turbo C 2.0 as the main compiler when they teach C language course. And thus, almost all beginners think the Turbo C is the essence of learning C language,and they start by using it.Still a lot of people think that Turbo C is the main developement tool.And for C++ beginners , they also think that they should beginner with Turbo C. So,What do you think of this problem?Does this create problems? What do use when you a beginner? And What compiler do you think is suitable for a beginner?
yndfcd wrote: So,What do you think of this problem?Does this create problems? What do use when you a beginner? And What compiler do you think is suitable for a beginner? Borland Turbo C was the first C compiler I purchased. I loved it. Wouldn't be where I am today without having gone down that road. From there, I went to Borland Turbo C++, then to Microsoft C, and finally to Microsoft Visual C++. A tool is what you make of it. When navigating the stones, skipping the smaller, intermediate stones is not always a good idea.
Five birds are sitting on a fence. Three of them decide to fly off. How many are left?