Programming/Scripting Resource

[Scott Elcomb]

On 1/11/07, Simon <simon80-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 1/11/07, Matt <matt-oC+CK0giAiYdmIl+iVs3AywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Wow, thank you everyone for all this great info!  I'm going to have to
> > give this some more thought before I choose which language to start on.
>
> On the other hand, don't get too overwhelmed - pick something and dive
> in rather than think about it and end up doing nothing.  I say this
> with a grim recollection of my first look at trying out Linux, back in
> 2001-2002 :)

Agreed, starting 'round 2003/2004.  :-)

As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, one important factor to
choosing a starting language would be to understand what kind of
coding you'd like to do.  Will it be for system administration?
Application/Utility developement?  Do you want it to be console based?
 XWindows?  Web?

Being able to answer these questions should help you get started.
Once you've spent some time with one language, it's been my experience
that writing in others isn't as hard is it might sound.  I spent the
first 10 years programming using BASIC and the next 10
learning/playing-wth a number of others.

Better 'n Lego(TM)

;-)

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