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General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: forthegreatergood on January 19, 2014, 08:22:14 pm

Title: New user
Post by: forthegreatergood on January 19, 2014, 08:22:14 pm

Hi everyone!
I am new to omnimaga, and I am just starting to program.
Here's a brief description of what I've done so far:

- BASIC (6th grade-nothing too extensive). I created a basic tic tac toe game
- C# web forms.  I created a few applications to do calculations (mainly for science fair lol)
- Visual Basic - this was a school course, so not too rigorous i guess you could say.
- Java - I only know the basics of it.  I don't know any fancy algorithms.

I plan to start learning C++ to make ndless applications and for USACO.  How should I proceed about learning it?
I don't have any compiler downloaded (I have a Mac OS X i3 by the way).  A few people recommended CodeBlocks,
but I have heard mixed reviews about it.

Any suggestions?


P.S. Is there an introductory page to this website? I'm very confused  :crazy: 

Title: Re: New user
Post by: Juju on January 19, 2014, 08:23:12 pm

Yes it is. Welcome to Omnimaga! Can't wait to see what you did.

!peanuts

Title: Re: New user
Post by: bb010g on January 19, 2014, 08:24:55 pm

There's the about (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=17) page. Welcome to Omnimaga! Hopefully you will be able to use those Ndless apps. :) Have some peanuts!
!peanuts

Title: Re: New user
Post by: forthegreatergood on January 19, 2014, 09:27:29 pm

Thank you; errm what do I do with the peanuts??

Title: Re: New user
Post by: bb010g on January 19, 2014, 09:31:48 pm

You can eat them, throw them at people, put nukes in them, teach them the hokey pokey...
Lots of things.

Title: Re: New user
Post by: The_King on January 19, 2014, 09:36:24 pm

Quote from: forthegreatergood on January 19, 2014, 09:27:29 pm

Thank you; errm what do I do with the peanuts??

Eat them and I i say Welcome to Omnimaga

sadly i don't have peanuts to  give to u

or do i
(http://omnimaga.org/images/peanut-bag-game.gif) :P

Title: Re: New user
Post by: Sorunome on January 20, 2014, 07:48:54 am

Heya, welcome to omnimaga!
Have some peanuts:
!peanuts

I self-taught me C++ at the beginning with some book where i mainley learned the syntax and variable types, then i just started with some projects and kept googling questions i had and thus learned more and more. As compiler I use GCC :)

Title: Re: New user
Post by: Vogtinator on January 20, 2014, 10:51:38 am

Hi, have some peanuts:
(http://omnimaga.org/Smileys/classic/peanut-bag.gif)

Luckily they are free here xD

On Mac OS X you'll have to install XCode + clang and use XCode with Makefiles or QtCreator if you want something cross-platform.

Title: Re: Re: New user
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 20, 2014, 12:54:34 pm

Heya and welcome to the forums :D

Title: Re: New user
Post by: Legimet on January 20, 2014, 01:02:07 pm

Hey, i know you!

Have some peanuts:
!peanuts

For the Ndless SDK, see http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/C_and_assembly_development_introduction_on_Linux.
Should work on OS X, but idk where you'll get the build deps. Maybe ask tangrs, if he still uses OS X.

Title: Re: New user
Post by: ExtendeD on January 20, 2014, 01:41:38 pm

Hi!

If you are on Windows start here for Ndless (http://ndlessly.wordpress.com/ndless-for-developers/), on Linux see Legimet's message above.
C is the most widely used language for Ndless programs, although there are already some games written in C++ it's rather new. We are looking forward reading your experience and trying to help.

Title: Re: New user
Post by: TheCoder1998 on January 20, 2014, 01:43:51 pm

Hello :)
Welcome on σmπimαgα :D
have some peanuts:
(http://omnimaga.org/Smileys/classic/peanut-bag.gif)