Am Samstag, 26. Januar 2013, 04:14:00 schrieb Malte Gell:
Hi there,
I´ve been a Linux user for many years, but I´ve not yet learned to code. I speak some Bash and have good general knowledge about x86 hardware, but that´s all. What would you recommend how to start learn programming? Would you start with a scripting language like Python or Perl or just with C/C++? Automating things or controlling apps with Perl/Python would already be a good thing.
I'm doing a lot of automation, interfacing and infrastructure glue code with Python, and I still enjoy it. As a possible downside, it happens that you look into some of your code and cannot remember a single line due to the fact that you wrote it ten+ years ago, and didn't need to look into it since then.. (although that code is working every day!). ;-) Even then, Python's language structure and syntax helps you to settle down in a short time. Even PyQt code runs with astonishing stability, although the basic technologies move along all the time (well, apart from Qt3). As Adam pointed out, it might catch you in the transition areas, hence check out the batteries, that are already included, and those that are available, preferably from some stable series. Usually, they're well-tested. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-programming+owner@opensuse.org