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<blockquote data-quote="Fenlock" data-source="post: 2258030" data-attributes="member: 6305">ok, you got two weeks to learn a programming language and do some work good enough to pass.I really would not recommend VB6! The language have evolved/devolved through the years to become something very very bad (IMHO). The only reason to learn VB6 is if you have to maintain legacy applications. Besides you have to get your hands on a copy of Visual Studio. I am not even sure if there exist a standalone compiler for VB6. If you only have 2 weeks to learn a language and complete a project, you have to choose a&nbsp; language with good documentation and devolper tools. I think psionicist is right about python (not sure about c). There is an excellent book called 'dive into python' which i believe is free (<a href="http://diveintopython.org/)" target="_blank">http://diveintopython.org/)</a>. You can find more information about python (including developer tools) at <a href="http://python.org/" target="_blank">http://python.org/</a>.Or you could choose java, and just clobber something together from the codesnippets at the java almanac site (<a href="http://javaalmanac.com/)" target="_blank">http://javaalmanac.com/)</a>. If you download java from <a href="http://java.sun.com" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com</a> you'll get netBeans IDE at the same time. NetBeans is great for doing rapid AWT or SWING development.C# is a good choise to but you'll need to get a copy of visual studio.net. You could probably get the beta2 version of visual studio.net 2005 from microsoft, which would be good enough for your timespan.Fenlock</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fenlock, post: 2258030, member: 6305"] ok, you got two weeks to learn a programming language and do some work good enough to pass. I really would not recommend VB6! The language have evolved/devolved through the years to become something very very bad (IMHO). The only reason to learn VB6 is if you have to maintain legacy applications. Besides you have to get your hands on a copy of Visual Studio. I am not even sure if there exist a standalone compiler for VB6. If you only have 2 weeks to learn a language and complete a project, you have to choose a language with good documentation and devolper tools. I think psionicist is right about python (not sure about c). There is an excellent book called 'dive into python' which i believe is free ([url]http://diveintopython.org/)[/url]. You can find more information about python (including developer tools) at [url]http://python.org/[/url]. Or you could choose java, and just clobber something together from the codesnippets at the java almanac site ([url]http://javaalmanac.com/)[/url]. If you download java from [url]http://java.sun.com[/url] you'll get netBeans IDE at the same time. NetBeans is great for doing rapid AWT or SWING development. C# is a good choise to but you'll need to get a copy of visual studio.net. You could probably get the beta2 version of visual studio.net 2005 from microsoft, which would be good enough for your timespan. Fenlock [/QUOTE]

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