Am 08. Feb, 2019 schwätzte Harold Hartley so:
moin moin,
Yeah, I remember going from basic to C. That was different :).
Are there any particular types of applications you'd like to work on?
Do you have something you'd like to automate for yourself?
ciao,
der.hans
> The last time I did programming was in the 1980's when I did dos basic. Dos basic doesn't even compare with the programming languages of today.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, at 18:24, der.hans wrote:
>> Am 08. Feb, 2019 schwätzte Harold Hartley so:
>>
>> moin moin Harold,
>>
>> Helping with accessability is awesome!
>>
>> If you're not already familiar with programming I suggest a book that uses
>> a language to teach programming concepts and branch out from there.
>>
>> I've been reading Practical Programming to re-familiarize myself with
>> Python. It seems to be a decent book for learning to program. While I
>> haven't done much development in years, I used to do a lot. As such, I'm
>> not a beginning programmer, so my evaluation might be biased.
>>
>> https://pragprog.com/book/gwpy2/practical-programming
>>
>> The e-book is DRM free.
>>
>> Lots of software is written in Python, so there are many opportunities
>> with it.
>>
>> A complaint that has come up on this list is KDE's lack of an
>> accessability API. I know KDE wants to have one, but it hasn't yet
>> happened.
>>
>> KDE work would likely be in C++, so you could target that language instead
>> if you want to work on KDE.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>>
>>> I’m interested in open source projects. I would like to help those with disabilities to use a computer for anything. But the software isn’t out there to help those with disabilities. I know because I’m disabled and deaf.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, at 11:57, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>>>> Hi Harold,
>>>>
>>>> Start with the end in mind. What is your goal? Web? Working on Open
>>>> source projects?
>>>>
>>>> Knowing that will help us give you feedback.
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-02-08 10:33, Harold Hartley 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> So hopefully someone can point me in the right direction for info.
>>>>> --
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>>>
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