Which language to choose between QBASIC or C++

[Floppyman]

Hello i want to learn some computer language just for the sake of programming and my preferred choice starting is BASIC and then C++,  so if someone from here would like to answer my question , which do i start with. Can you please give me some suggestion:
                 i already have QBASIC in Virtual environment, i basically want to learn because i want to do atumated task or repetetive task easily by learning this language.

Can you also offer some ebooks as a starter : just for a digging slowly from the start.

[TheWaffle]

Curious , what virtual enviorment are you using?

[Floppyman]

What i meant was i already have QBASIC in Virtual Box, ready to run any time , as for C++ i already have a CCompiler too. Just don't know what to do with them.

[TheWaffle]

which CCompiler?

[Salmon Trout]

For an introduction to BASIC I would rather use FreeBasic, which is more or less compatible with QBASIC syntax.

[TheWaffle]

what about smallbasic?

[Salmon Trout]

what about smallbasic?

What about it?

[TheWaffle]

Well since Floppyman wants to learn a version of basic isnt best to lea
rn a simple one such as smallbasic which comes with its own book for free?

[BC_Programmer]

Well since Floppyman wants to learn a version of basic isnt best to lea
rn a simple one such as smallbasic which comes with its own book for free?

Smallbasic doesn't come with a book. You download it, then use it.

FreeBASIC has plenty of online documentation, and is compatible with QBASIC/QuickBASIC.

using QBASIC or QuickBASIC itself, at this stage, is rather silly, unless you specifically need to run on an older DOS-based machine.

[Geek-9pm]

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using QBASIC or QuickBASIC itself, at this stage, is rather silly, unless you specifically need to run on an older DOS-based machine.

I have used QBASIC for a number of mundane takes using XP and it works just fine. Withing its limits.

EDIT:
But I will not recommend it as a start language. So does that mean I will recommend C++. Hard to do that. For a novice it should be C# instead.
Free tools to create .NET applications on Windows using Visual C#

[Salmon Trout]

Doesn't the QBasic IDE have a CPU utilisation problem with XP, well Win32 generally? To do with a wait-for-keypress loop?

[TheWaffle]

Does it matter what compiler?
Borland c# builder
Mono
visual c#

[Allan]

Does it matter what compiler?
Borland c# builder
Mono
visual c#

If you have questions you need answered please start your own thread rather than getting this one off topic. Thank you.

[Floppyman]

If you have questions you need answered please start your own thread rather than getting this one off topic. Thank you.

Waffle was beginning to sound like a strange and curious kid, but Allan just had to put it up, lol
I already have C# Express edition, although it would still be like a monkey not knowing what to do with the coconut .....thing.

Can someone give the name of some good C# books just to give a proper direction for my head, any simple ebook would , showcasing just the few
fundamental's of C#.

[TheWaffle]

Have you taken the tutorials provided by microsoft?