Question:
Are There any free visual programming languages for windows?
the-dsl-guy
2007-06-03 16:55:41 UTC
FREE PLAESE!

And, by the way
If It requires downloading a web installer (The Dowload where it downloads somthing that downloads.), Is overly large for dial-up, etc., I don't want it. Please post it anyway, BUT PLEASE AS A GENRAL ACT OF COURETSY TO A DIAL-UP USER, PLEASE POST WHETHER IT IT BIG OR NOT!

In a more calm tone,
Thank You, And please answer.
Three answers:
earl71972
2007-06-03 19:00:19 UTC
Yes, there are free ones, but no, they aren't capable of downloading purely on a dialup computer.



I'd recommend the Visual Studio Express Edition series of downloads (you have to download them separately) if you want a visual programming language. At 500 MB a piece (downloading the "for CD (ISO) version", not the installer), they aren't fun to download on Dialup (in fact, my ISP wouldn't let me, as it would kick me off after 4 hours, and each time I restarted the download, it would restart from the beginning). However, if you could get someone else to download it for you (or go somewhere with free broadband access, if you've a laptop or they provide a desktop), they are a very good set.



You get VB.NET 2005 EE, C# 2005 EE, J# 2005 EE, MySQL 2005 EE, and VC++ 2005 EE, and each are a very good language to learn. If you're new to programming, I'd recommend going with VB.NET first, and finding some tutorials (or buy a book or two, a much better option) first.



I'm sure that if you asked around, someone would be willing to burn you a CD of each of them (or a DVD containing all of them, if you've a DVD drive on your computer) and mail them to you (most likely if you lived close enough. CDs are relatively expensive to mail).



Unfortunately, I've moved on to VS 2003/2005 Professional editions (I got them free from my school), and deleted VS 2005 EE and its parts from my computer.



Other than that, you have the Mono project, QT, and SharpDevelop (I think runs off Mono), but these are all very large downloads (several hundred megabytes). Again, if you wanted, you could ask around for someone to burn you a copy.



Hopefully broadband will reach your little nook of the world (and mine, although I'd probably reject it just so I could keep my nickname of "Dialup" and not feel bad).
stevietheman66
2007-06-03 19:18:47 UTC
Lazarus. It's a lot like the venerable Borland Delphi. It's 42MB, but that is easily manageable if you use a download manager.



http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339



Click on the newest Windows binary: Lazarus-0.9.22-fpc-2.0.4-20070326-win32.exe
Braiam
2007-06-03 17:04:19 UTC
C++, use the DJGPP compiler



C#, use the Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions



Also try the QT libraries from Trolltech (qt is free, is portable, and Microsoft is using it to make portable the applications written in .net languages)


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