nice thanks you all. it seens pythob is the way to go. what i mean by having 20 days is that 20 in wjich i can work on the language 12+ hours a days. once scholl starts i'll be surpriesed if i can find even a full hour everyday. <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Not sure if 20 days is enough, but try writing a web script. Create a page with a form on it, have the user submit some data, process the data somehow, and spit an answer back to the user. Specifically, try writing a script that asks the user when he was born and tells him how many days old he is. Then put the script up here and we'll critique it for you. Sound like a plan?</blockquote> <div> this sounds like a good plan. i'll look up some free tutorails and get on it. </div> <div>On 7/16/05, Fajar Priyanto <<a href="mailto:fajarpri@cbn.net.id">fajarpri@cbn.net.id</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Saturday 16 July 2005 07:46, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > Start with the on-line textbook at: > > <a href="http://www.htdp.org/">http://www.htdp.org/</a> > > ... and use: > > apt-get install drscheme > > ... to get the software used for the exercises in the book. > > Though Scheme is not used much for "practical" programming projects, the > book is really not about Scheme per se, but is about designing programs. > The things you'll learn are applicable in any programming language. > Learning to program first from this book using Scheme will make learning > other programming languages much easier later on. > > -- > Karl Hegbloom <<a href="mailto:hegbloom@pdx.edu">hegbloom@pdx.edu</a>> Thank you Karl, I myself is not a programmer (mostly doing networking stuff in my job), but I found that a bit programming skill won't hurt. I've been looking for something like this, the one that can give someone like me a basic understanding of what programming is all about. Btw, is the pdf version of the book available? Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | <a href="http://linux2.arinet.org">http://linux2.arinet.org</a> Ubuntu Hoary 5.0.4 public key: <a href="https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key">https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div>