[ubuntu-us-in] Time for a change

[Daniel Dunn]

AWSOME. Thanks for the input everyone. I think that i am going to
start with C# then move to python then perl. Seems like a natural
progression to me. I am a HUGE fan of Oreilly books, so i will
probably pick up a C# book from them. Can anyone suggest any other
entry level resources that they would use for C#?

On Nov 19, 2007 7:57 AM, Dave Cooley <dcooley at kiva.net> wrote:
>
>  Hooray!  Thanks for passing that along, Robert.  I'm glad to see they're
> moving along.  I hope it was that professor's suggestion.  I should say- now
> that I think about it, the "awhile back" I mentioned (when I was talking to
> that prof) might have been like two years ago.  :)  My, how time flies.
>
>  Dave Cooley
> dcooley at kiva.net
>
>
>
>  Robert Freeman-Day wrote:
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> Dave,
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> I believe their non-major programming course is now taught in python,
> though.
>
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/a201/
>
> there is also a Grad level non-major class.
>
> Robert
>
> Dave Cooley wrote:
>
>
>  I'm not a programmer by trade, I'm a sysadmin; that's just a disclosure,
> in case it colors my suggestions. I do, however, work with several
> programmers (who are my users).
>
> I suggest Python. It's what we mostly use at our software house. I can
> actually understand the programmers' code, which is nice. It's also a
> no-brainer when I need to move websites and/or applications between
> Windows and Linux (yeah, I use Ubuntu in our racks) servers. We use
> python because we can produce working (mostly web-based) applications
> much faster than our competitors can, whenever our clients ask for
> custom applications (which is often).
>
> Also:
> I was speaking with an IU Comp. Sci. prof awhile back (don't remember
> his name) who was telling me how much he loves python, but (so far)
> hasn't been able to get the university to change to teaching their
> first-year CS students python instead of java.
>
> Cooley
>
> Dave Cooley
> dcooley at kiva.net
>
>
>
> Daniel Dunn wrote:
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>
>  In my busy schedule of work, being a father, being a husband, and
> trying to let people know about Ubuntu, I have decided to learn a
> programming language. I learned VB in highschool, and i have dabbled
> with different languages since then, but not hing serious. I was
> wondering from the "Experts" what language would be a good start? I
> would love to give back to the Ubuntu community by helping to code and
> debug projects. I had been thinking about C#, but any recommendations
> would be helpful.
>
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