RE: [SLE] (OT) A programmers route

Hi, This is an interesting question, many people are eager to learn programming, but they don't know where to start or what books to read. My suggestions in a Linux environment are: Start with this book: Learn to program using Python - Alan Gauld And buy this book too: Learning the Bash Shell - Newham/Rosenblatt Use some time with those two books.Get on the Python mail list. There are also many programming resources on the Python web site: http://www.python.org/doc/Newbies.html You can then progress to these books: Learning Perl - R.Schwartz Beginning Linux Programming - Stones, Matthew Introduction to Object-oriented programming with Java - C.Thomas Wu Then if you want to excel even further: Programming Python - Mark Lutz The Unix Programming environment - Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie Data Munging with Perl - David Cross If you get through these, and your motivation stays high, you should be well on your way to becoming a good programmer! Some good advice here too - http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/c/expert.html http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html Don't rush it, have fun and work hard, and you will see yourself getting better and better as you are getting there. :) Jostein

===== Original Message From Raul Gutierrez Segales ===== Hi,

This is a completly out-of-topic and selfish thread :-)

I finish school tomorrow, hopefully :-), and I have three or four months before University and I want very very much to start programming......now, I have a huge wish list in amazon and as well there are many great resources in the web but I am kind of lost.........

If I start in C (and do a little Perl, just for fun, in my spare time that wont be very much) will I get to understand at least *a little* of the kernel and be able to program something and take a jump to C++ in another one or two months so I can start making usefull things?? In june (2002) I could start thinking of Java.......

Would anybody suggest any other way, any advices??

Oh, I forgot, I would be doing some shell scripting also (but remember, C is where the great secrets lie, right?)

Thankyou very much, and forgive me if I am abusing of your knowledge, I will try to give back someday all what I learned in this list :-)

Raul

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