What about this book for a starter:https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Shell-Script-Programming-Meadors/dp/0619159200/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17G30RXKOVSVK&keywords=linux+shell+script+programming+book&qid=1671781328&sprefix=linux+shell+sc%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1 try and find it on abebooks.com for better price9780619159207 - AbeBooks | | | | $251.83 | | | | | | | 9780619159207 - AbeBooks Linux Shell Script Programming by Meadors, Todd and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles ava... | | | On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:10:05 AM MST, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote: That would have been the early 80's.  When BASIC was not owned by Microsoft, when it was spelled BASIC for whatever compiler you used, and it had line numbers, and GOTOs.  I started programming in a gifted program with a dumb impact printing terminal with an acoustic coupler you stuck a phone handset into to network over the public switched telephone network after I got into a gifted student's class in 5th or 6th grade.  I didn't get a CS major in college because you had to travel between central Kansas liberal arts colleges for classes and I didn't have a car, so I majored in math instead, and never have broken into the software or IT world, really. But now I'm getting close. In those days you started with Logo or Turtle, or maybe BASIC, and then started seriously studying programming with Pascal, then you learned C and later complained that they didn't put you on a Unix machine working with C starting in CS105.  We had no idea how awful things were compared to what would come. Trent On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:51 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:26:18 -0700 >Python is a great first language, and there is no shortage of beginning >Python books aimed at young beginners. I've never read a juvenalia >programming book, except maybe pre-Visual Basic BASIC with the line >numbers and goto-s, In the 21st century, anyone who teaches a child goto-s, or even fails to strongly criticize them to the child, should be shot at dawn. The only tolerable uses for goto are: 1) Assembly language, but who uses that today? And modern assemblers    have JSR (Jump to Subroutine) and RET (Return from subroutine), so    even that is questionable. 2) Jump to an abort subroutine, but even this is ill advised. 3) Break out of a multiply nested loop, but it's much better to    construct each loop to do the right thing. I haven't used a goto since maybe 1992 (assembler), and I'm proud of that. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss