On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:53, Roger Luedecke
I have been learning Javascript on codeacademy.com . Now I'm nearly done with the tract, and have no clue what to do with what I learned. Could also use advice on a good IDE. I was checking out Eclipse, but for some reason it hasn't been built for 12.1, and I hate running things that aren't packaged in an .rpm. Got any ideas on how I can get involved with FOSS using Javascript that is suitable to a new programmer?
Eclipse is a standalone app... it can easily just sit in a directory in your /home/$USER (this is where my Eclipse always is) so you're not really "installing" it.. basically there's nothing to be managed by the RPM side of things. If you want to use Eclipse, just download it from the IBM website and put it in your /home... there's nothing else to do or manage. You can do the same with Oracle's Netbeans as well (the current installer defaults to /home/$USER/netbeans-7.1.1 but you can set to whatever) It doesn't need to be managed by the RPM side of things. Both IDEs (Eclipse and Netbeans) are good with their own set of strengths and weaknesses. They are the two "main" high end development IDEs that most people/companies use. There are others such as Emacs, Komodo Edit, VIM, Geany, UltraEdit (commercial), etc etc. You can use Kate or GEdit too... depends on what you are hoping for in a text editor. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org