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Answer» Hi can anyone please suggest me an ebook on DOS ? who said anything about programming?see my reply again. I use "if" ... it means i also don't know. so i am just guessing. Any problems with that?nope. Just seemed random to me is all! Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 30, 2009, 09:33:05 PM nope. Just seemed random to me is all!well..if one starts to write code, its more or less considered some kind of programming. If so, then why start with DOS? A real programming language would serve more of the purpose. A real programming language helps "visualize" programming concepts and data structures etc. Furthermore, they can do what DOS batch can do, and much more. Quote from: gh0std0g74 on May 30, 2009, 09:36:56 PM well..if one starts to write code, its more or less considered some kind of programming. If so, then why start with DOS? A real programming language would serve more of the purpose. A real programming language helps "visualize" programming concepts and data structures etc. Furthermore, they can do what DOS batch can do, and much more. well im sure he will eventually pursue programming. but batch requires no compiler\ program to program besides notepad and a mind.I started with Batch programming. Nothing wrong with learning how the basics of scripting works before attempting other languages. If I never learned how to make Batch files, I believe it would have been HARDER [for me] to learn other programming languages. Quote from: BatchFileBasics on May 30, 2009, 09:40:33 PM well im sure he will eventually pursue programming. but batch requires no compiler\ program to program besides notepad and a mind.oh really. how do you suppose your batch file runs? ever heard of cmd.exe? that's a program if you want to call it.command.com I think, what he meant was there was no additional download. Not that that really provides a compelling argument.what im saying is that batch is a simple scripting language to start on to get an idea of syntax Quote from: BatchFileBasics on May 30, 2009, 10:30:22 PM what im saying is that batch is a simple scripting language to start on to get an idea of syntaxbatch syntax is ugly and batch doesn't have a lot of features already present in modern programming languages. batch also tends to lead to inefficient code. its true you can start with batch , but somewhere down the ROAD, you will find its limitations and what it can't provide. you would want to switch, so why not skip the whole DOS PROCESS and start learning how to do real programming now.yes batch isn't the best use of syntax but it gives the scripting virgins an idea of how syntax works. and just jumping into a programming language LIKE c or vb6 looks very overwhelming. To be honest... because I used batch first it took me longer to understand QBASIC, which was my second step. I kept thinking of lines as commands and had no concept of statements or expressions. |
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