I decided I wanted to get back into “proper” programming again. I started programming in 6502 asm on the commodore 64 and then onto 68K asm on the Amiga. I have not done any real programming since the early 90’s. However for the last 12 years I have been developing in PHP so have kept my hand in with high level development.
As I use mostly Linux and some Windows I wanted my software to work across both platforms and decided to settle on QT. I am ok (just) with C programming still remember most of it and having converted some software from C to PHP didn’t anticipate it being an issue. However QT is C++ which to be perfectly frank is not just C with added OO. Moving from PHP to C is pretty straight forward, however moving from PHP to C++ is not.
I have just ordered Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example which I have heard is an excellent book for those with some programming experience and I look forward to getting started.
C++ development will be purely for my own pleasure and all projects will be OpenSource and I will attempt to produce binaries for all platforms that QT supports with a bare minimum of Mac, Windows and Linux. Nokia have just announced that future version of QT will work on the Maemo platform which I will aim to compile to as well.
My first project will be aimed at Motorhome owners but usable by Caravan owners. I don’t want to say too much just yet until I have actually made a start on it 🙂
I will post my progress to this blog as I go.
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