General question for programmers

[fashizzlepop]

Or import in python.

[KthProg]

lol im just now picking up python and ruby and maybe lua (since I dont know any scripting languages yet)
while were on the topic do you have any good pdfs for python?
a pdf came with ruby but I really need one for python.

what is this > ::
in c++?
never seen anything like that in VB
VB NET comes from a totally different lineage than other programs though. so almost all the syntax is different, except that Python is similar except but python has no end statements its all tab delimited

after glancing at that PDF I have to say Python looks literally exactly like VB lol...

[-Ninjex-]

lol im just now picking up python and ruby and maybe lua (since I dont know any scripting languages yet)
while were on the topic do you have any good pdfs for python?
a pdf came with ruby but I really need one for python.

I would suggest you check out codecademy.com, but if you insist on a pdf Here

[KthProg]

thank you, its even more similar to VB than I thought lol
The file IO operation are even the same, like Readline, though thats more a VBA or VB6 thing.

except for the "list"
this is similar to an ArrayList but with more methods associated with it, I wonder if it has the same memory optimization as an ArrayList too.

[-Ninjex-]

what is this > ::
in c++?

:: In a constructor, using a colon is used to initialize a variable and/or for calling on the parent constructor.

[KthProg]

lol could you give me an example i think this might be another area where VB and C++ are totally seperate.
in VBnet setting a variables value initializes it at runtime.
or if you want to initialize it at compile-time (if im using the term right) you use a Dim statement like

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Dim xVar as Integer = 1

or

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Dim yVar as Integer
yVar = 1

[fashizzlepop]

:: is the scope resolution operator. It defines the scope of the variable.

You aren't going to learn C++ or understand anything by just picking random things that are different between VB and C++. They are Very different languages.

To learn python, I suggest "Learn Python The Hard Way"

[KthProg]

lol is that a book or a statement?
I always learn by coding but being able to make associations especially when languages are as similar as VB and Python I think helps so I always read the PDF to figure out whats different and what a language has that's nonstandard like Pythons 'list'.

[fashizzlepop]

It's a book.

[KthProg]

C# is the unwanted child of Java and VB.
That is all.