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mir you're probably right. I did not notice that he's that young. At that stage you should really focus on easy technologies with good outcome.

Web development is the best. Mir said all there is to it. Ballouta, take a look at these (HTML, PHP, and such ...). I think you'll like it.

i need an expert in vb 6 to make a connection between a program made in vb6 with a usb joystick and the serial port ? :( i cant find any , its for a new thing im building :)

jadberro wrotei need an expert in vb 6 to make a connection between a program made in vb6 with a usb joystick and the serial port ? :( i cant find any , its for a new thing im building :)

Wouldn't take an expert. Search the internet for the win32 communication api.

ballouta wrotehello there
well i started working with c++4 months ago after a month a friend told me to work with vb6 because its more easy from c++ i started with vb6 and i learned a lot of coding but i like to learn more codes if someone can help me with some codes or a website that have a list of codes or something like that and thank you

Your friend gave you an improper suggestion.

You should assess your needs first. If you're really planning of pursuing a career in programming, stick to C++ up until you're familiar with all the programming concepts then reassess your needs and identify what you plan on doing. The development field branches out exponentially, If then on, you plan to work your way through web development there's a wide range of technologies you can choose from with their respective frameworks.

- Ruby on Rails (Ruby)
- Django (Python)
- CakePHP (PHP)
- J2EE (Struts, Seam) (Java)
- ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC (C#/VB.NET)

And the list goes on, mind you, these are just examples, there are dozens of other frameworks you can choose from for each language.

My advice to you is to continue with C++ until you find yourself comfortable with programming concepts then move to http://www.w3schools.com to familiarize yourself with html and css, after that you can effectively choose any of the above listings to follow.

Ofcourse this is not the optimal path to follow, however I cannot assess what you really want to give the optimal advice.

Ballouta, if you could tell us in what you're more interested (games, desktop applications, web applications, web design, embedded systems, ...) so we can tell you exactly what language to start with.

im not really interested in something i just need something to fill my time with , and i found vb6 easy and fun to work with

Although it is easy to work with, but you will cripple yourself. In the future, there will be no place for VB6, you will have to switch to another language, and switching from VB6 to another language such as C++ or Java will be hard. I agree with xterm, once you start at something, make sure to continue until you finish it.

Good decision, here are some resources:

http://cpp-tutorial.cpp4u.com/ *Tutorial

http://www.cplusplus.com/ * This id a C++ forum where you can ask all your C++ related question

http://www.dreamincode.net/ * Another good forum which includes a C++ sub forum

http://www.uow.edu.au/~nabg/ABC/ABC.html * Another good tutorial

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/C++Intro/ *This is a good tut also, as it starts from the very beginning and goes to the advanced topics

http://mathbits.com/mathbits/compsci/compsci.htm *Another tut

You can find more tuts on the net but the best thing to do is get a good book and read it to the end while you do practice, and hopefully you will reach what you want, keep up the good work and good luck :)

i download Dev-C++ 4 from the link you gave me ?

yeah did you read about it? If you like it you can download it from the same website.

isn't code blocks the same ?

yeah it is similar, you van use that too.

C++ is hard. It'll take you some time before you get to the command line. You'll have to work your way through the whole OOP paradigm. But don't worry the possibilities of C++ are near limitless.

Just to give you an example of popular games that use C++:

Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, Mortal Kombat, Starcraft, Starcraft 2, Diablo, Diablo II, Doom III ... You could also check the KDE project, an entire desktop environment coded in C++ (using the Qt libraries, you'll learn that soon enough).

Anyway, C++ can act like vb6 and so much more. However it takes lots of time and practice.

If you want easier things, try a scripting language like Perl or Python. But my advice to you is really to chose one programming language and stick with it (for now) until you get a good level of knowledge in it.