Looks like we need more programers

[takemehomegrandma]

Sidewinder wrote:
Here is the first section of my tutorial.  I'd appreciate any constructive criticism you can offer.

Nice! :-)

Perhaps you could go deeper into how to set up a working developer envireonment. It seems like many people are having problems with this, and it would be sad if they will stumble and fall before they even are able to compile that first "Hello World!" program. So a detailed, step by step, tutorial of how to do this would be justified before going into that Hello World example. All needed information on one place. It would start from scratch and when the reader has followed all the instructions and recommendations then he/she will have a complete and *working* development envireonment on the HD, as well as a library of downloaded reference documentation. Only then will the user be ready to begin to learn actual programming, IMHO.

[takemehomegrandma]

Kronos wrote:
@gazza

Have you set the needed assigns ? Is the "bin" directory in your path ?

That's what I'm talking about. We need an envireonment that works without problem, out of the box.

On the C64, the Basic interpreter was there on power up. Easy. A lot of todays great programmers started their carrears on the C64 because it was so simple and easy to get started. On the Amiga there was AMOS, which allowed people to start programming just as easily. No hazzle. The Aminet testifies of the AMOS success. But when someone try to compile a simple "Hello World" in C and gets all kinds of cryptic error messages from the compiler regarding missing header files or whatever, they might loose their motivation and just quits trying.

C is a more complex language than Basic, but it should be just as easy to "get going" for a beginner, so he/she can focus wholehartedly on learning the programming instead of trying to get the compiler up and running.