Posts Tagged ‘windows applications’

Long time back we used to write stuff up in C and C++

I have been out of programming since just after punched cards so I was wondering what language is used to write most Windows based programs these days?

I am looking for the best programming language/toolkit combination for windows GUI programming. The applications would be educational programs displaying text, graphics, sounds and perhaps video files while monitoring student inputs to determing progress and when additional help is needed. Free and/or open source software is prefered, but commercial tools are an option as well. Speed of development and ease of learning the tools are considerations. Thanks!

Hello all. I’m a Windows user, but I’d like to try out a Linux distro. I’m looking for an OS that has a similar GUI to windows and similar applications, with high compatibility with Windows programs. I was thinking of Ubuntu. Do you guys have any better suggestions? Thanks.

The open-source Wine project is less a solution and more a workaround when it comes to the issue of running Windows applications on Linux.
– After devoting my last couple of columns to the topic of choosing an alternate OS (in particular, Linux) without giving up your Windows apps, I didn’t plan on extending the discussion further that is, until a lively reader exchange prompted me to turn that pair of columns into a trio.
If we’re to d…

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