How to get going?

[forkinpm]

Hallo!
I am not a programmer, but a writer with a need to automate certain taks to make my life easier.
I am English and live in South Eastern Germany in the vacinity of Vilshofen.
I research generally in and write in English.
I have built an outline platform to translate my texts from English into German and it works manually.
I now would like to automate certain of the tasks. To do so I need to learn to program in a simple fashion.
I have chosen CSharp as the language and the Pelles C IDE and of course have landed in their forum.
When you are on the outside looking in, trying to learn, it is invaluable to get good guidance.
My questions are:
What sources are the best ones for programs to learn from?
Am I likely to find programs which do more or less what I want to do?
Can I post my needs for specific product needs here on this forum?
Or is there another forum which one would recommend?
What additional tools do I need to get operational?
If I only want to have simple executable programs, what base to I really need?
Which English book is the best and simplest to read and learn CSharp?
Are there groups which I could join where "teachers" would be available?
Are there local groups in "Niederbayern"?
Anyone helping me could learn from my experiences with building a translation model.
It is an excellent way of learning another language.
I hope that I can awake any interests and get some good responses
Kind regards, forkinpm.

[JohnF]

Firstly, if you intend to use CSharp then PellesC is not for you.

John

[forkinpm]

Hallo!
When one takes the trouble to formulate what one considers to be a thought out statement of needs and posts a number of questions, he does not exoect as an answer, "Jump off this train and look for another one".
Help comes usually in the form of a different and helpful response.
Regards, forkinpm.

[JohnF]

Hallo!
When one takes the trouble to formulate what one considers to be a thought out statement of needs and posts a number of questions, he does not exoect as an answer, "Jump off this train and look for another one".
Help comes usually in the form of a different and helpful response.
Regards, forkinpm.

You're joking, right!

John

[Stefan Pendl]

This is a forum for the Pelles C IDE, which does only support ANSI C for Windows.

C# is a .NET based language.
A good, free C# IDE is #Develop available at http://www.icsharpcode.net/, they do have a forum too.
There are developers from Germany involved in developing the IDE and the forum includes a German section too.

Hope this gets you started.

[Bitbeisser]

Hallo!
When one takes the trouble to formulate what one considers to be a thought out statement of needs and posts a number of questions, he does not exoect as an answer, "Jump off this train and look for another one".
Help comes usually in the form of a different and helpful response.
Regards, forkinpm.

Why such arrogant response? 

You got a helpful response in pointing out to you that you posted your questions in the wrong place, as this forum is about Pelle's C, which is a different programming language than C# (CSharp hor however you want to spell it).

You can't expect to get much more help in a "Russian" forum when you in fact have question about "Spanish". That's the very same difference. Two completely different languages...

Ralf