I was approached by my brother the other day asking if I can make applications because I have general programming knowledge. The most I know is C. I didn't get all the info yet but I figured I would ask this question first. What programming language are most applications made from? I know this may be too general of a question but I was just curious. You can give the short versions of your answer as to not waste much time with it... yet. :D
Thanks guys.

If you know C, try Borland C++ Builder. I use it and I love it.

That's a thought. What type of applications do you generally make with that? Thanks CroCivic91.

I made all kinds of desktop applications with it... for example:
- trojan horse
- application for my high school, which helped someone make school schedule (when the given class uses which classroom)
- application for selling tickets in a theatre
- my own eBay search tool which runs once every day and does the given searches for me and saves the results in my folder
- waking up application which starts winamp at the given time
- chat for me and my friend, back in the days when we only had LAN and no Internet

A Computer application is the use of programming tools to allow a task to be performed on a computer. Almost any piece of software can be considered an application.

Thanks, Scott and Crocivic. I kind of knew that about the applications, I was just trying to get an idea as to the power of using C++ builder and the practical uses for it. This gives me some ideas to go on. Thanks again.

C isn't so powerful. Step up to C++ and you can do a lot. For example, a lot of computer games are written in C++.

Unfortunately, time restricts me right now but it shouldn't be to hard to learn C++ right?

I was approached by my brother the other day asking if I can make applications bc I have general programming knowledge. The most I know is C. I didn't get all the info yet but I figured I would ask this question first. What programming language are most applications made from? I know this may be too general of a question but I was just curious. You can give the short versions of your answer as to not waste much time with it...yet. :D
Thanks guys.

If you know C, you will be able to develop applications in C++ relatively quickly. The caveat to that is that initially, your coding style (which is typically procedural in nature for C developers) will not open up the full power of the C++ language. Over time however, as you learn about and embrace object-oriented programming principles, you will become a stronger C++ developer.

My recommendation, assuming you are working on and developing for a Windows-based computer, would be to download and install Microsoft's Visual C++ Express Edition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/) development product. It is free, yet has most of the basic capabilities of their more fully featured Visual Studio 2005 family of development tools. Hopefully, it will provide both a good starting point for learning more about developing applications for the Windows platform using C++, but also that experience will expand your capabilities as a developer in general, irrespective of the target platform you develop for in the future.

The link to the site at which you can obtain the Visual C++ Express Edition product is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/ (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/)

I hope this helps you in your efforts, and best wishes in your future coding endeavors.

Sincerely,
Brett

Even though this was a post I made a year ago it does help. I haven't had time to work on this but this would be good for the future . Thanks

Wow, and I was just about to suggest that we drop this topic since it's so old! Way to go jduke for sticking around! :)