On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:37:37PM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > Hello all. > > This is kind of off topic. My apologies in advance. > > I am helping a non profit organization and giving some classes to > prepare students so they can be prepared and try to get a job (they > are students also and have the basics concepts already) > > Anyway, I am interested in teach them to develop some simple > applications. From simple ones to destktop ones that access a > database, desktop ones that use internet to connect to a remote > database and web based ones with a database behind. We have 6 months > and the idea is to work a lot remotely. Thin is that I do not want to > use any kind of Microsoft products. Some of them do not have modern > machines but until now, in previous classs, we could install Freebsd, > text mode, and work from there. > > Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we > would like to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows > (we all know that's the market and here some companies is what they > are looking), so maybe sound crazy but I am looking to develop > applications for Windows without using WIndows or Microsofot products at > least. > > I have been looking for this for months. First case using Windows but > not Microsoft products. I found some options BUT they all were > expensive on the deployment. The "runtimes" were not free and the > amount of money to pay was not a good option. Others provide " real > free" excutables for runtimes but the products were expensive. I am > now trying to, If possible, have FreeBSD running graphically and then > use open source software to develop graphical windows applications. > > Maybe I am wrong but until now I think my only option is to use > Phyton. Is that correct? For what I have searched Python will let me > create executables and will let me create Graphical solutions even > for other platforms (Mac or LInux or whatever runs Python). > > Talking with friend, he believes that my best bet is to teach them C > or C++ and use some of the options for developing graphically ( I am > not a C or C++ expert but I can learn alone). > > I was wondering if you could give some advie and comments on this. > > Are you developing commercial applications (including Windows ones) > using FreeBsd as your platform? Or Maybe any Linux Distribution? > > Would you do that with Python or something else? > > Any extra advice is more than welcomed. > > Thanks in advanced. >
Any reason you don't want to use Java? OO, plenty of IDEs to choose from, ranging from vim to Eclipse which run on both Windows and Unix. If I wanted to develop for Windows (I don't), that's what I'd use so I could develop my code using FreeBSD. The best part is that Java skills are in demand. (I don't know if that's the case in Mexico though). Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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