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| whats the best programming language for ePrime....i need to pick up a book to do a little ...ahem...studying...which is better C, C++, C#?
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| The scripting language generated and used in E-Prime is called E-Basic. If you are trying to learn that language for creating InLine and Full Script then any reference on VBA would be useful, but likely to dealve into topics that are not related to E-Prime. Even many references to VBScript will direct more to a web precense or talk about features that are not supported (like events). There is a number of topics in the Reference Guide about E-Basic which I would review. In addition, google VBScript and VBA and a number of free references will come up.
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kfevre,
As Brandon has indicated, E-Basic is a dialect of Microsoft VisualBasic, so the language has been chosen for you. I have heard that "VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages" published by O'Reilly is a pretty good reference (I even own a copy though I still have not looked through it enough to know how well it works for figuring out E-Basic). I don't know if it's still in print (we're talking about a dialect of something like VB 6, which is very old), but you can buy used copies at Amazon.com. This all assumes someone who already has solid general & object-oriented programming skills, otherwise I think it more useful to just learn (object-oriented) programming in general with, say, JavaScript (which is free), and then apply those general programming skills to E-Basic in particular. Though E-Basic my be well adapted as a language for serious programming of lab experiments, it is not a language for beginners.
Just my $.02,
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kfevre,
"VBA Developer's Handbook" also comes recommended, it's even mentioned in the E-Prime User's Guide (once again, I have a copy on my shelf, and have never had the leisure to look through it myself). Come to think of it, how about the introduction to E-Basic that comes right in the User's Guide (or did I say that somewhere already?)?
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