| C,C++ | C is best used to program fast, lower level applications. This tutorial will create a .dll to work with windows audio api. C programs are compiled to machine code which is fast but not portable. |
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| Visual Basic | VB is best used to quickly create user interfaces to .dlls or activex controls and for performing simple tasks that are not CPU intensive. VB is compiled to an intermediate code which is then translated to machine code when it is run. This tutorial will create a user interface to the functions in the .dll written in C. |
| ASP | ASP (Active Server Pages) are used to provide dynamic web content. They are html pages with server side scripts that can be written in a number of languages to dynamically change the html that is sent to the browser. Don't have a server? Well if you have windows 95 or better you do! It's called Personal Web Server and can be installed from the CD. For win95 you have to install the NT 4.0 version which you can get from microsoft. This tutorial will show how to create a simple login page with passwords stored in a database. |
| Java | Java is best used to create applets on web pages to perform tasks using the client cpu instead of the server. This tutorial will show how to create a pong applet. |
| SMIL | SMIL (Syncronized Multimedia Integration Language) is used with Internet Explorer to easily add animation to your web pages. |
| DHTML | DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language) can be used with Internet Explorer to create animations. |
| VB.NET | VB.NET (Visual Basic for Microsoft's Dot Net Framework) If you want to learn VB.Net but don't want to buy Visual Studio you can use the compiler that comes with the framework. This example shows how to create an IDE (integrated development evironment) to edit and compile your VB apps. |