Thanks to everyone for the input! It looks to me like starting with a good
foundation in C/C++ is still the place to get started.
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:42, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:18, Matt Nesteruk wrote:
> > Perl is where its at.
> >
> > cheq out http://www.perlmonks.org/
> >
> > :o)
>
> I also recommend learning C/C++, not necessarily because these languages
> are better (or the fact that I myself have used them for many years) but
> because so much open source is written in them. Although I'd like to
> learn Perl and Python some day, I haven't yet run into a situation where
> I needed to do that, because there's almost always a C/C++
> implementation.
>
> Vaughn
>
> > On 1/24/06, stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
> > This is an interesting thread! One of the reasons I
> > switched to GNU/Linux
> > (aside from the most obvious M$ drawbacks), is the opportunity
> > to get back
> > into programming as a hobby without shelling out lots of money
> > for the
> > supporting software. My problem is that, other than some HTML,
> > I haven't done
> > anything serious since M$ Level 2 BASIC and some Z80 assembly
> > many moons
> > ago (when "Zelda" was a text based console game!). This
> > experience doesn't
> > translate well into { } and ::;s.
> > I'm interested in Python, but I'd welcome suggestions
> > and recomendations
> > from others getting stared up again.
> >
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 22:01, Judd Pickell wrote:
> > > If you are wanting to keep up with the newest techs, Python
> >
> > and Ruby are
> >
> > > the way to go. The core Linux languages are C/C++, PERL, and
> >
> > shell
> >
> > > scripting (atleast from my experience). Python is starting
> >
> > to take over the
> >
> > > PERLs role, but PERL is well entrenched I think.
> > >
> > > I am hoping to hunker down and learn Python here pretty
> >
> > soon. Many of my
> >
> > > favorite games are now using it for UI and modding
> >
> > capabilities, so I
> >
> > > figure I better learn it so I can play with their stuff.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Judd Pickell
> > >
> > > On 1/23/06, Austin Godber <godber@uberhip.com> wrote:
> > > > Josh Coffman wrote:
> > > > > a clue how to program on linux also. Maybe Java. Maybe
> > > > > Python or Perl. Anyone care to make recomendations
> > > > > that one could fit into an already busy life. I could
> > > >
> > > > Welcome Josh,
> > > >
> > > > Here are some references:
> > > > Python Tutorial
> > > > http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
> > > >
> > > > Perl Book in PDF Format
> > > > http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/
> > > >
> > > > Ruby Book
> > > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
> > > >
> > > > Really, it depends on what type of stuff you are
> >
> > interested in doing. I
> >
> > > > don't know of any equivalent resources for C or C++. Sun,
> >
> > of course,
> >
> > > > has a ton of Java documentation.
> > > >
> > > > I have recently become a bit of a ruby fanboy. But
> >
> > admitedly I was
> >
> > > > pleased that I could extend the ruby pcap wrapper to parse
> >
> > ARP packets
> >
> > > > in an hour or two without knowing any ruby to begin with.
> > > >
> > > > Austin
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