Just a newby here!

The reason that I joined, was hoping to find Gambas 3 tutorial to help me learn.  Nothing special anyway.  Can any body point me to right direction?  Any help is apprieated.

Richard L. West
Newby on Gambas Programming.
 

Welcome to Gambas One, Richard!

Do you have another computer not being used, or able to set up a VM (virtual machine)? If yes to either one of these you could try using GambOS.

What OS are you using? Have you already installed Gambas?

Is there any particular project you are wanting to create? 

Hi Richard.
I had a look at my antiquated collection of Gambas related tutorials and most are quite outdated now.
There is one called A Beginners Guide To Gambas by a guy called 'John W Rittinghouse' that I used when I first found Gambas in the wild. It was written in 2005(?) so very dated now.
I think he went on to make a commercial book of this but never found one to purchase.
The core stuff(?) is still mainly relevant although the screen-shots are visually way off now. 

I found another called Programming Gambas from Zip that seems to be a bit more up to date 2019(ish)
Couldn't find an author name but didn't go through the entire document.

I've attached both for you to have a look at.

Please freel free to ask as many questions as you like. This is a great forum and there are no stupid questions .
The one thing I'd suggest is that when you post a question, you ensure that you list the Linux & Gambas versions you are using.


Gambas has a built-in menu item to list this detail [ ? - System Information] so it's easy to get - Line 1 & 3 highlighted below are really good to know before offing advice on any issue.

 


 

I couldn't attached both PDF's at the same time although they both displayed in the attachment area of the post ?
 
here is the very aged "Begginers Guide to Gambas".

Quincunxian said

I couldn't attached both PDF's at the same time although they both displayed in the attachment area of the post ?
 
here is the very aged "Begginers Guide to Gambas".

From “Post #13,580”, December 18th 2025, 6:06 PM

It looks like neither upload worked. The upload limit was at 100MB, so I've upped the upload limit to 250MB. This a per-post limit.

[edit: it looks like the pdf itself is embedded into the post. I was expecting a file to download.   ]
[edit 2: I think I'll add these PDF's to the Resource Center. ]

There is a revised edition of Beginner's guide for version 3 … 2011

https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Gambas-Revised-Rittinghouse-ebook/dp/B006C75I66

 

GrayGhost said

There is a revised edition of Beginner's guide for version 3 … 2011     

From “Post #13,586”, December 19th 2025, 9:13 AM

Do you have a link to it?

Yes :  I also have the epub version …. I tried to attach it but it is to big …. will try to zip it

https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Gambas-Revised-Rittinghouse-ebook/dp/B006C75I66

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beginners-guide-to-gambas-revised-edition-with-cd-color-images-included-john-rittinghouse/1108616715

GrayGhost said

Yes :

https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Gambas-Revised-Rittinghouse-ebook/dp/B006C75I66

From “Post #13,588”, December 19th 2025, 9:25 AM

ah, good! That's the updated version Quin was referring to.

It looks like the only format available now is the Kindle version for $9.95 (USD).

Barnes and Noble has it also as paper back   $115

I have the epub version …

Could you please explain to me what you think is wrong with the GambOS project?
Thank you.

 

Here is the updated Beginners Guide   version 3   :

A Beginners Guide To Gambas (updated for Gambas 3) (ePUB version)

[edit by sholzy: This is an ePUB version of the book)
[edit by sholzy: Corrected the download link after modifying the download)

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