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Jan 11, 2002, 8:30pm

Hello, people. I'd appreciate any help you can offer in getting started.
Please forgive questions that don't really make sense or are two
rudimentary.

I'm interested in starting to learn about and begin program creation for
the Activeworlds environment and am just now starting my reading through
the Activeworlds documentation. In it, it refers to C, Java, and Visual
Basic. I'm trying to decide whether to make C++ or Java my development
environment. What do most people use? What do you recommend? Among C++
and Java environments, do people favor Borland or Microsoft? While I
have a fair amount of programming experience, most of it is many years
old, so, if I proceed, I will be teaching myself one of these two
languages as I go. Any links to helpful related sites and general
suggestions will also be welcomed.

Thank you,
Wotter

Jan 12, 2002, 10:27pm

Thank you all for your suggestions and help. I'm lucky to have tapped into
such a responsive community.

Weighing what you have said and software reviews by customers at Amazon.com
against my particular circumstances, I have decided on Borland C++ Builder
5. Depending on how well that goes, I may disappear for a while using it to
learn how to write in C++ and work with the Activeworlds SDK well enough to
get started.

The newer link to the Java AW SDK, the comparison of products, statements of
personal preferences, and well-wishes were all appreciated.

Wotter

[View Quote] > Hello, people. I'd appreciate any help you can offer in getting started.
> Please forgive questions that don't really make sense or are two
> rudimentary.
>
> I'm interested in starting to learn about and begin program creation for
> the Activeworlds environment and am just now starting my reading through
> the Activeworlds documentation. In it, it refers to C, Java, and Visual
> Basic. I'm trying to decide whether to make C++ or Java my development
> environment. What do most people use? What do you recommend? Among C++
> and Java environments, do people favor Borland or Microsoft? While I
> have a fair amount of programming experience, most of it is many years
> old, so, if I proceed, I will be teaching myself one of these two
> languages as I go. Any links to helpful related sites and general
> suggestions will also be welcomed.
>
> Thank you,
> Wotter

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