I really need to start leaning scripting of some flavor.


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On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 11:44 AM Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:33:11 -0500
"Harold Hartley" <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:

> I am interested in learning to write code and not sure where to start.
> I'm looking for anyone that can steer me in the right direction for
> books or web site that can help me get started.
>
> I currently run Fedora 29, with 1 TB drive, i3-7100 processor and
> currently 4 GB ram but will be upgrading to 16 GB ram and with dual
> monitors.

Do you ever create shellscripts to automate part of your Fedora 29's
work? If so, that's writing code. Explore branching, looping, sending
signals back and forth using kill. When you find your shellscript's
runtime performance too slow, or when you find it inconvenient to code
bigger programs in shellscripts, it's time to switch to Python.

By the way, I begin all my shellscripts with #!/bin/sh, not
#!/bin/bash, because Bash is a great interactive shell but it's bloated
overkill for shellscripts.

SteveT
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