From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 7:37:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC74737B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.9.218] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14c7uJ-0004gv-00; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:37:19 -0700 From: Joe Warner To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Tyler K McGeorge" Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:13:05 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "Damien Tougas" , References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <000601c0a9f9$31b88120$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031108370900.00256@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, I'm jumping in on this one.. Like others in this thread, I've come to the realization that learning to program with FreeBSD would be beneficial. I've used FreeBSD for a year now and still have zero programming experience. I spent $200+ on O'Reilly books for C, Python and Perl but still don't know which book I should start reading first. Most of those with programming experience I have talked to have recommended I start with C but didn't provide clear explanations as to why. I understand that if you learn C, then most other object oriented languages will be easier to learn. Can't I start with, say Python? I've read a lot of exciting things this language can do and that it's been gaining a lot of recent popularity. When I decide upon a language, where should I start? With books? College courses? Both? For me, programming has always seemed like this obscure/unreachable plateau populated by members of a secret society of gurus that speak their own language. Kind of like the stock market and it's traders and analysts. 8^) Regards Joe You know you're in trouble when your wife asks you; "Would you like me any better if I had a square face?" -me On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Tyler K McGeorge" writes: > > | I am in the process of learning C programming, but I seem to running > > | up against a bit of a problem: I have nothing to program. > > I seem to have the same problem. I've learned several languages, but all on > > personal projects. By the time I got to C, I ran out of projects. [...] > > Lucky for you, we have a whole batch of projects just waiting for > someone to work on them: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi > > They're not all really that hard. Many of them can probably be closed > without any more action than verifying the bug they report no longer > exists, or never existed in the first place. If you're looking for > something more long-term, try this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ > > If you're serious about it and do useful work you'll end up with > commit bits in no time :) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message