From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what to do?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-AAB2FC.16234217112009@nothing.attdns.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10902.1258475018.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.10902.1258475018.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Devin LaCrosse <themidnighthief@gmail.com> wrote:
> i just recently discovered emacs on my new macbook pro. I read the
> tutorial, i know how to navigate around emacs a bit. The one question
> that's eating me up inside I can't seem to find answer for. Perhaps
> you could help me? I very interested in computer science, emacs
> appears to be an awesome program, I don't know how to program (yet) I
> want to learn how. Can you please explain to me (as if i was 5 years
> old ) what do i use/do with emacs i.e, make video games, websites,
> math programs, please tell me!!!....Thanks in advance for i am excited
> to use this newly discovered program.
A computer program is like a recipe, or the instructions in a how-to
book. When you learn to program, you'll learn a language that you can
use to write these instructions. You use Emacs to write these
instructions to a text file. Then you either use a program called a
compiler to translate this file into machine code that can be executed
by the computer directly, or an interpreter that reads the file and
performs the instructions on the fly.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
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2009-11-17 21:23 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-11-17 8:08 what to do? Devin LaCrosse
2009-11-17 19:44 ` Andreas Röhler
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2009-11-18 8:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2009-11-19 0:27 ` Sean Sieger
2009-11-17 21:54 ` William Case
2009-11-18 5:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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