Gambas, Kdevelop, Glade review

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Review Date: 18 Feb 2005

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Our Rating 4 stars out of 5

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Each year, many people spend their Christmas book tokens on titles that will teach them how to program in Perl, C++ or any of the other languages that run on Linux.

Unlike Windows, however, most Linux distributions come with everything you need to get your ideas running in record time.

Learning a programming language from scratch may seem daunting, but most mainstream Linux distributions include a helpful development environment. Gambas is probably the easiest to use, and comes with lots of useful examples including games, automation projects and an example web browser. You can even use these as a basis for your own projects.

If you plan to learn a language by writing code, there's Kdevelop, designed with the professional developer in mind. This provides a framework in which to write and test programs in anything from shell script to the more obscure Ruby programming language.

Graphical user interface programming stumps many would-be programmers. To overcome this Linux has programs such as Glade, which allow you to place interface elements on forms with your mouse and the equivalent code is then generated automatically.

Add to this a multitude of debuggers and code profilers and you can see that Linux provides everything you need to learn to program. Who knows, you might find fame and fortune by writing something that the Linux community finds useful.

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