From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what to do? Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:42 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258494063 6585 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 21:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:41:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 22:40:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAVnE-00048x-39 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:40:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAVnD-0001NW-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:55 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18BW4WrYRUr54W9GII6mTLn9YyyR7RD0N0PSU4x7uyQ4v7IUanDRrpfTcaTWDx+aVNuPu7hbsIk3piizPpZ4EBOhoh6PqrpB1Qo0Vek5iZGiLpdu78ic04Pbrfxb5KCtw0= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:23:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18w1qUAekgtbDP9upn9g6Q21fvl0PnAL7g= Cancel-Lock: sha1:vYRVUk2HyFG4htVFHRO5b0SoXcE= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174779 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69852 Archived-At: In article , Devin LaCrosse 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 ***