http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4354/
If you look at the competitors, they offer unified development platform and associated documentation. Have a look at XCode+developerConnection and VisualStudio+MSDN, this is ideal infrastructure to get new programmers.

It would be nice to have a dedicated website to inform people about the development on Ubuntu. The website could help people to make their first software, help them to begin with the main IDEs, and give links to get further information on the official website of the language/IDE/framework.

Such a website should be very appealing and simple to help the beginners. Help in lot of language would be a plus since lots of people don't speak English.

More developers means more people to implement the idea of Ubuntu Brainstorm :)

[465 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4354


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+1]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:12:44 +0000 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:13:37 +0000
I think that a standard Gnome package that included Python, PyGTK+, and a really good beginner-oriented IDE (not Eclipse, which is professional level) would result in a flood of interest in programming similar to what we saw in the 1980's. Perhaps we could steal from the OLPC Sugar concepts here, which enable anyone to easily modify or write new Python code for their own computer.
]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:42:14 +0000 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:22:30 +0000 KDE has its own tool too :)]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:50:19 +0000 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:53:43 +0000
Anjuta is for C and C++. Eclipse is mainly for Java. This languages are difficult for the beginners. You have to promote this IDE, but for a skilled developer point of view.
We should also provite help for user coming from other IDE like XCode and Visual Studio.

The idea of ricegf is great. With a nice tool and PyGTK+, a beginners could get a window with "hello world" in two minutes and three click. Then you can tell people that Ubuntu is the easiest way to learn programming.

Finally, developers need to know how to distribute their software. Helping beginners to create a .deb package would be great.]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:32:31 +0000
-1]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:49 +0000 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:30:51 +0000
It doesn't need to be a specialised distro, just a meta-package. Comeon people. ]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:19:37 +0000
Personal preference is what would hold something like this back.

The IDE would need to implement every possible solution for building. autotools, cmake, scons, etc... There would be debates on which languages to use. There would be debates on which versions of libraries to use. Which verison of GCC to use, so on and so forth.

Don't take this as me being against the idea. I am all for it. It will require a lot of work to implement it though. To be honest, a completely new IDE should be written for something like this. Something that could make use of widgets for GTK+, QT, and wxWidgets at a bare minimum.

It would need to be intuitive. Library inclusion should entail the program searching for installed libraries, and cataloging them. Making adding them to your program as simple as checking them from a list.

Actually, this is an idea that I would be willing to help implement.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:49:53 +0000 the first objetive is "promote them to beginner developers"


+1 ]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:25:20 +0000 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:20:18 +0000
here is an indirect but efficient idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5832/]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:42:19 +0000 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:54:59 +0000 its a great idea.

i was also looking a programming language that works like Visual Basic. I've heared about Gambas that its almost the same as visual basic.

actually, i was looking for a good IDE programming language. im used in programming from Visual FoxPro 6 in windows world. Its IDE with built-in database. I liked Visual Basic, only you need to have MS Access to create/access database. Visual Fox Pro has it all in one package.

Im looking for a good package in linux does have it all like visual foxpro. an ide with built-in database.]]> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:44:59 +0000