From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 0:46:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADD637B827 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-238.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.238] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA09687; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:47:24 +1000 From: Danny To: TEWisdom@cs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! Bunch of newbie questions Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:48:42 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <73.4a8f626.268ef7b9@cs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070117524000.24420@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good tutorials on php3, cgi etc etc (www.webmonkey.com), (www.devshed.com), (builders.com) Good C Mailing list (www.egroups.com or maybe www.egroup.com) YEs you can have a partition with both FreeBSD and Window. You can use a boot manager called booteasy which will allow you to do this. And yes there is a C compiler in FreeBSD is used like so cc -o foobar.c foobar I believe Please send your reply to everyone in the freebsd-questions mailing list so you can get a broader answer to your questions below. On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, TEWisdom@cs.com wrote: > To introduce myself, I'm a total newbie with no knowledge of UNIX, FreeBSD, > servers, and compilers other than the fact that such things exist. My only > programming experience involves a dos/Basic (not visual basic, not even > Qbasic, BASIC) course I took 8 years ago. (when I was 13, no less--long > story.) Despite this, I'm trying to learn about all of these things. So if I > aggravate y'all with my ignorance, be gentle. > > I'm trying to make my own website. So, I began by learning HTML. Except, it > seems, to do all the really cool stuff I need to learn coding languages such > as CGI, ASP, PHP4, Java, JavaScript, Perl. . . the list is endless. Plus > everywhere I look someone's offering "developer's tools" that cost an arm and > a leg. Then I learn that not all webservers will accept such things anyway, > and that every browser has different requrements themselves. to add insult > to injury, all of the tutorials on the above I find are written for someone > who already KNOWS how to code in another language, usually c/c++. > > So, going one step further, I start researching c/c++. The first thing > GOOGLE leads me to are a whole bunch of things called "compilers." From what > I gather, a "compiler" is something that turns readable typing (albeit barely > readble, unless you know the language) into machine language. Cool. The > problem is, there's not one, not a dozen, but a practically endless list of > these compilers, each a variation of C, each extolling its particular > virtues. Some are free, not are definitely NOT free, and all of them are > described in language that anyone unfamiliar with C/C++ would not understand. > Namely, me. > > Moving on, these languages, I find, are designed for unix. What's UNIX??!! > I look into unix. Unix, it seems, is an old OS (wowee, I now know what OS > stands for!!) developed in the 70's, and has a whole bunch of > variants--Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD. . . Which lead me here. Now for the > questions: > > *Where's a good mailing list or newsgroup to start asking stupid questions > about C/C++? > > *Can I install FreeBSD on my computer, and switch back and forth between it > and Windows when I need to? How would this be done? > > *Do I need to install a UNIX platform, such as Free BSD, to use a C/C++ > compiler? If not, how would I use such a thing on Windows? > > *Of these different compilers, can someone tell me what good (free) c++ > variant they might reccommend? I hear that Borland is really easy to use > (from the Borland website, so I take this with a grain of salt), is there a > free variant that is as easy? > > *Are there any good, free tutorials written for newbies (on any or all of the > subjects above, 'cept for HTML--I've got that one licked) that I might be > able to use? (I already know 'bout the ones on the FreeBSD site, and I'm > looking through them) > > Thanks. Oh, BTW, since I'm mailing this through a link I found on the > FreeBSD webpage, and not through a subscription to the mailing list, please > mail direct to my personal box, not the list--and CC the list, if you want > everyone else to see your message. Thanks again. > --Tiberius (Ty) Wisdom > TEWisdom@CS.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. 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