Free Book Getting started with Gambas

This is a simple Getting Started with Gambas Tutorial. It is intended for first time programmers who want to gain some idea of the capabilities of Gambas. You can then see if this is the development
environment that they would like to learn more fully. It will also be useful for Visual Basic programmers who are moving from Windows to Linux.
Traditionally on Unix based systems like Linux you used a number of tools to develop an application. So you used a code editor, possibly a user interface designer, a compiler and other tools.
You preformed each stage of the development process with the relevant tool. This process can work,

after all much of Linux was built this way. It does have the advantage that if you do not like one tool
then you can replace just that tool with something you do like. But it can also have the disadvantage
of compatibility issues when the output of one tool does not fit the required input for another tool. It
also makes it difficult for new developers to learn the required steps to produce professional looking
application. To overcome these problems there are now a number of Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) for Linux. IDE's include all the tools you need to develop applications within
one framework. They have been very popular on other operating systems and developers moving to
Linux expect to find similar IDE's. Two of the most used IDE's on Linux are KDevelop and
MonoDevelop. KDevelop is an IDE for creating C and C++ applications and for using scripting
languages. MonoDevelop is an IDE for developing .NET application using languages like C# and
VisualBasic.NET and others

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