Hollywood/Hollywood Designer - 1st programming language?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:50 am
In the opinions of experienced coders here, are Hollywood & Hollywood Designer good tools to try to learn how to program with? Or, does it make more sense to start with some form of Basic programming language, like Blitz Basic, True Basic, or AMOS Pro? I have purchased all of the following programming tools over the last 20 years, hoping that I would some day have the time and energy to learn to program on and for the Amiga.
Latest versions of Hollywood & Hollywood Designer (just upgraded Designer to 3.0 and also purchased the Windows version of Hollywood, in addition to the Amiga/MorphOS version I already had, because I wanted to be able to do some programming on my laptop when traveling)
AssemPro Amiga assembly language program
Visionary programming tool for text adventure games
CanDo programming tool
Amiga Vision programming tool
J-Forth for the Amiga
Amiga-E from a cover disk, with a small booklet
AMOS Pro with lots of extras on disk, CD-ROM and printed books & manuals
Blitz Basic 2.1 for Amiga, boxed with manual
True Basic for Amiga, boxed with manual
Modula 2 for Amiga, boxed with manual
Aztec C version 5 (I think that is the version number) for Amiga, boxed with manual
SAS-C version 6.93, or what ever the last version was, with full manuals
Storm-C version 4, or what ever the last commercial release version was, with manual on CD
Amiga ROM kernal manuals, all editions and every book written & released by Commodore
Amiga Developers CD versions 1.1 & 2.1, plus Geek Gadgets CD
Purchased Cubic IDE development system with gcc + other parts, for MorphOS2.x (and maybe compiling for other systems too)
A lot of Amiga books published by Abacus, numbers 1 through 17, except #15, plus a ton of other Amiga related books, mostly about programming, or doing video work with an Amiga
I took a couple of computer science college courses about 10 years ago, including a beginning programming class using MS Visual Basic, which I did well in, but then got too busy with work to pursue it further and I was not interested in programming on Windows systems and only want to program for Amiga and MorphOS systems. I have some scripting experience on a propietary Windows and DOS system for work from years ago and have done some reading, but I am just now getting down to becoming serious about learning to program so that I can actually start being productive and create something worth sharing with other people. I have the time now, but I am not sure about the energy, or concentration to keep me interested in learning how to become a good programmer. Any and all advice would be welcome and appreciated.
Latest versions of Hollywood & Hollywood Designer (just upgraded Designer to 3.0 and also purchased the Windows version of Hollywood, in addition to the Amiga/MorphOS version I already had, because I wanted to be able to do some programming on my laptop when traveling)
AssemPro Amiga assembly language program
Visionary programming tool for text adventure games
CanDo programming tool
Amiga Vision programming tool
J-Forth for the Amiga
Amiga-E from a cover disk, with a small booklet
AMOS Pro with lots of extras on disk, CD-ROM and printed books & manuals
Blitz Basic 2.1 for Amiga, boxed with manual
True Basic for Amiga, boxed with manual
Modula 2 for Amiga, boxed with manual
Aztec C version 5 (I think that is the version number) for Amiga, boxed with manual
SAS-C version 6.93, or what ever the last version was, with full manuals
Storm-C version 4, or what ever the last commercial release version was, with manual on CD
Amiga ROM kernal manuals, all editions and every book written & released by Commodore
Amiga Developers CD versions 1.1 & 2.1, plus Geek Gadgets CD
Purchased Cubic IDE development system with gcc + other parts, for MorphOS2.x (and maybe compiling for other systems too)
A lot of Amiga books published by Abacus, numbers 1 through 17, except #15, plus a ton of other Amiga related books, mostly about programming, or doing video work with an Amiga
I took a couple of computer science college courses about 10 years ago, including a beginning programming class using MS Visual Basic, which I did well in, but then got too busy with work to pursue it further and I was not interested in programming on Windows systems and only want to program for Amiga and MorphOS systems. I have some scripting experience on a propietary Windows and DOS system for work from years ago and have done some reading, but I am just now getting down to becoming serious about learning to program so that I can actually start being productive and create something worth sharing with other people. I have the time now, but I am not sure about the energy, or concentration to keep me interested in learning how to become a good programmer. Any and all advice would be welcome and appreciated.