From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: damn newbie question
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 19:45:15 +0000
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
Lines: 45
Message-ID: <33BC014A.2BFF@cs.com>
References: <33BC2B1F DOT 32B7 AT usa DOT net>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp102.cs.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Precedence: bulk

stealth DOT chrome AT usa DOT net wrote:
> 
> uhh...I just started to learn programming 2 hours ago (in C) but i don't
> have a damn compiler... could someone help me out here? uhh.. I've heard
> about the DJGPP but I don't know which file(s) to download to complete
> the compiler..(someone please help!!)

Have you visited the main DJGPP web site at
<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/>?  If so, it points you to the correct
place to start downloading in the Getting DJGPP page: 
<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html/>.  The file you MUST get
first is 'readme.1st' (from the main SimTel site: 
<ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/readme.1st>).  This
provides you with a list of the available packages, tells you which ones
you need to download, and gives instructions for installing the packages
and configuring your computer.

Another useful document to get is the Frequently Asked Questions list. 
It is available from SimTel as 'v2/faq210b.zip', or online at
<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/>.  The first six chapters should
give you enough information to tell whether DJGPP is right for you, and
to solve any basic configuration problems you might have.

See also the new (and not yet finished) DJGPP User's Guide, online at
<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/>.

> PS. Ohya (someone tell me if this is correct) I heard that it's better
> to learn C rather than C++ as a primary languge cuz it's more easier to
> understand (less complicated) and from there learn C++...is this true??

You will find many different opinions on this.  I personally agree with
you; C is an excellent foundation on which to build.  However, it is
possible to learn C++ right away without ever touching C, because true
object-oriented programming (C++) is very different from
procedure-oriented programming (C).  It's your choice...

hth!

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
|      John M. Aldrich       | "Deductive logic is tautological;    |
|       aka Fighteer I       | there is no way to get a new truth   |
|   mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com   | out of it."                          |
| http://www.cs.com/fighteer |                 - Lazarus Long       |
---------------------------------------------------------------------