Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:41:28 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: TEWisdom@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi! Bunch of newbie questions Message-ID: <578625242.20000701104128@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <73.4a8f626.268ef7b9@cs.com> References: <73.4a8f626.268ef7b9@cs.com>
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Here are some FreeBSD related resources I have found helpful in the past: www.freebsd.org (tutorial and handbook pages) www.freebsddiary.org http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ http://freebsd.peon.net/freebsd/index.html http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jkb/howto.html amoung others.... Good luck, Neill (freebsd@nc.rr.com) Saturday, July 01, 2000, 3:28:57 AM, you wrote: Tcc> To introduce myself, I'm a total newbie with no knowledge of UNIX, FreeBSD, Tcc> servers, and compilers other than the fact that such things exist. My only Tcc> programming experience involves a dos/Basic (not visual basic, not even Tcc> Qbasic, BASIC) course I took 8 years ago. (when I was 13, no less--long Tcc> story.) Despite this, I'm trying to learn about all of these things. So if I Tcc> aggravate y'all with my ignorance, be gentle. Tcc> I'm trying to make my own website. So, I began by learning HTML. Except, it Tcc> seems, to do all the really cool stuff I need to learn coding languages such Tcc> as CGI, ASP, PHP4, Java, JavaScript, Perl. . . the list is endless. Plus Tcc> everywhere I look someone's offering "developer's tools" that cost an arm and Tcc> a leg. Then I learn that not all webservers will accept such things anyway, Tcc> and that every browser has different requrements themselves. to add insult Tcc> to injury, all of the tutorials on the above I find are written for someone Tcc> who already KNOWS how to code in another language, usually c/c++. Tcc> So, going one step further, I start researching c/c++. The first thing Tcc> GOOGLE leads me to are a whole bunch of things called "compilers." From what Tcc> I gather, a "compiler" is something that turns readable typing (albeit barely Tcc> readble, unless you know the language) into machine language. Cool. The Tcc> problem is, there's not one, not a dozen, but a practically endless list of Tcc> these compilers, each a variation of C, each extolling its particular Tcc> virtues. Some are free, not are definitely NOT free, and all of them are Tcc> described in language that anyone unfamiliar with C/C++ would not understand. Tcc> Namely, me. Tcc> Moving on, these languages, I find, are designed for unix. What's UNIX??!! Tcc> I look into unix. Unix, it seems, is an old OS (wowee, I now know what OS Tcc> stands for!!) developed in the 70's, and has a whole bunch of Tcc> variants--Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD. . . Which lead me here. Now for the Tcc> questions: Tcc> *Where's a good mailing list or newsgroup to start asking stupid questions Tcc> about C/C++? Tcc> *Can I install FreeBSD on my computer, and switch back and forth between it Tcc> and Windows when I need to? How would this be done? Tcc> *Do I need to install a UNIX platform, such as Free BSD, to use a C/C++ Tcc> compiler? If not, how would I use such a thing on Windows? Tcc> *Of these different compilers, can someone tell me what good (free) c++ Tcc> variant they might reccommend? I hear that Borland is really easy to use Tcc> (from the Borland website, so I take this with a grain of salt), is there a Tcc> free variant that is as easy? Tcc> *Are there any good, free tutorials written for newbies (on any or all of the Tcc> subjects above, 'cept for HTML--I've got that one licked) that I might be Tcc> able to use? (I already know 'bout the ones on the FreeBSD site, and I'm Tcc> looking through them) Tcc> Thanks. Oh, BTW, since I'm mailing this through a link I found on the Tcc> FreeBSD webpage, and not through a subscription to the mailing list, please Tcc> mail direct to my personal box, not the list--and CC the list, if you want Tcc> everyone else to see your message. Thanks again. Tcc> --Tiberius (Ty) Wisdom Tcc> TEWisdom@CS.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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