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A little confused.....
Laughing Cheese:
Hi all!
There doesn't seem to be a general discussion forum, so I thought I post here, since I use windowss (ME, unfortunately...)
I read in the announcements that RC1 has just been released.
Now, I'm taking a Visual Basic course at my school, so I'm just getting into program, but I know that C/C++ is pretty powerful, and I'll most likely graduate to that after VB. Code Blocks looks like a great program, and I had the 1.0 RC2.
I'm guessing the RC1 is the latest/most advanced version, given its date of only two days ago, but it appears the main website hasn't been updated.
So, can someone help with which version and where to get it?
And, no offense, but it looks like the main website hasn't been updated in a while, but RC1 just came out...?
Oh yeah, and somene explain how this version stuff works?
Thanks a lot, LC
davereid20:
LC,
The announcement of RC1 was from July 2005. RC2 was released back in October 2005 and everything was ok, but it became very evident that a lot of internal changes needed to be made before Code::Blocks reaches 1.0 status. The developers took steps backwards and we're back to nightly builds, which have become very stable and seem to be pretty much on track (except for code-completion, which is a sore issue). I haven't had many problems with the builds (I do the majority of my collegiate programming on Code::Blocks) that haven't been fixed promptly. I'd recommend you try the latest nightly build and maybe become active in the Code::Blocks development process with finding and reporting new bugs.
This quote may also help you (although when Game_Ender says RC1, replace with RC2):
--- Quote from: Game_Ender on March 06, 2006, 10:14:30 pm ---The real issue is that the CB team had something pretty solid, if not feature rich at the RC1 stage. They decided that while solid, RC1 needed a major overhaul of several systems, so a rewrite begin. Technically they took a step backward to 0.9, and continued like RC1 had never been released, as in no feature freeze.
I believe this is mainly because the CB team believed that Codeblocks would be much more usable, and therefore worth a 1.0 release if they fixed so outstanding issues in RC1. The bad news we essentially jumped from release candidate stage back to alpha testing because these changes required major rewrites, as well as a linux build system change, etc.
--- End quote ---
Hope this helps you!
davereid20:
--- Quote from: Laughing Cheese on March 12, 2006, 07:04:05 am ---Now, I'm taking a Visual Basic course at my school, so I'm just getting into program, but I know that C/C++ is pretty powerful, and I'll most likely graduate to that after VB.
--- End quote ---
Once you've learned the language, you'll find you can do some pretty powerful stuff with C++ and you'll have even more fun when you play around with wxWidgets!
ZekeDragon:
I actually started as a Visual Basic programmer as well, and learned to build several applications with it. The problem I had with the language was that I felt it was too constricting for what I wanted to do, such as having multi-platform applications, which was imperative with the projects I had in mind. That's why I started looking for other development environments that still played like VB and yet could fit my desires. I found something called REALbasic*, which seemed to do quite well. I still suggest it, it's very nice, and I'd like to make something with it some day. But again, it's not what I could use. So, I turned to C++, staying away from Microsoft because I had fell in love with Open Source since I had just started programming (back when I was just a mere web coder). I went through dozens of possibilities for myself, and ended up using Code::Blocks. I'm now still in the nice 'learning' world of C++, (which, after being in VB and having those nice little visual windows where you can just point, click, and make a button) and despite me getting most the concepts, the transition has frankly been a pain in the ass. A few months later, I started asking questions here on the Code::Blocks forums, which I still do, and am getting everything easily. Start C++ as soon as possible, seriously. It helps you forever, and if you're really motivated, learn some assembly concepts, and maybe how to do toy with the computer in it. It's a blocky as Hell language, but using the concepts in higher level languages makes code a bit cleaner.
Can I ask what school you're going to though? Are you in the SAP course at ITT? That's where I am :).
*I am in no way endorsing REALbasic on these forums, I simply am linking to the site in order to clarify what software I am talking about. It may be altered/deleted as desired.
Laughing Cheese:
--- Quote from: ZakeDragon ---Can I ask what school you're going to though? Are you in the SAP course at ITT? That's where I am Smile.
--- End quote ---
It's at my high school, actually. The computer teacher there teaches Computers 1-4 classes. #1 being Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheets, etc. Computers 2 being Visual Basic programming, computers 3 being Lego Mindstorms Robotics, and computers 4 being Website Design with Frontpage.
I've taken computers 1 and 4, and I'm currently in 2. (You can take them out of order as long as you take #1 because they're different stuff..)
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