# I'm new :)

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 16, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-new/222766 "2007-04-16T20:17:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![szianci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@szianci](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/szianci)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-new/222766/1 "2007-04-16T20:17:56Z")

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Hello everyone! I’ll try as best I can to make my problem as simple as possible.

p.s: I’m a complete newbie \>.\<

I’m new here, on the forums I mean. I’ve read most of the photoshop and started on the flash guides on this site, but recently I’ve developed an interest in programming as well.

I wanted to start with programming a long time ago, and like many others (I think) I didn’t know where to start. 'Bout a week ago I just sat down and google’d my way to a simple “teach yourself in C 21 days” html book.

So I started reading it, and I got as far as “compiler” before the trouble began. After a couple of hours of searching and testing I found a working compiler/linker.

I wrote the standard “hello world!” app, and saved it, compiled it and linked it. Then tried to excecute it. My compiler simply made a “DOS app”, or how should I put it… I think you understand. So the app instantly closed before I could read what it said.

Tried the same thing with an app that calculated the area of a circle, with the user providing the radius of the circle. The application actually worked fine if I excecuted it within my compiler app, but not outside it (e.g excecuting it from total commander or explorer).

Now, here’s the problem: I’m right now trying to use Visual C++ as a compiler instead, and trying to figure how to make a application that would work “normally” in Windows XP. That’s how I would like to start. Could anyone help me with that?

I’ve gotten as far as creating a new text file in Visual C++, writing the circle area program, and saving it as a .c and trying to compile it with the command prompt inside Visual C++. That worked about the same as the old compiler… somewhat different.

there we go… hope that isn’t too much for you :S

Does anyone have the time to help me? Any suggestions are welcome.

-szianci