[wplug] Best programming language for beginner?

[Bruce Adams]

Justin -

I highly recommend the Pittsburgh Ruby User Group
http://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-ruby/
It's a great bunch of people.

The Pittsburgh Python User Group
http://www.meetup.com/pghpython/
is also a great bunch of people.

Another great (and new) group is Open Hack Pittsburgh
http://openhack.github.com/pittsburgh/
(which has no relation to HackPittsburgh). The next Open Hack is this 
coming Monday. Please do RSVP (so we'll have enough food).

There were many Ruby and Python folks at the first Open Hack in January, 
along with interest in several other programming languages and even a 
little hardware hacking.

- Bruce

On 02/21/2013 03:07 PM, Justin at js-wordsmith.com wrote:
> Probably Web applications, I guess. I feel like that's where development is headed.
>
> Oh, and I'd love for programming to be a fun experience. Working with Java was about as much fun as sticking my head in an oven. The Wikipedia article about Ruby got me thinking...
>
> "Matsumoto has said that Ruby is designed for programmer productivity and fun, following the principles of good user interface design.[28] He stresses that systems design needs to emphasize human, rather than computer, needs:[29]
>
>      Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves."
>
> That sounds about right. Is this how the Ruby community thinks? That tutorial Vikram linked to is HILARIOUS, and I really like how easy it is to understand the code.
>
> Justin Smith
> Vice chair/secretary, WPLUG Board of Directors
> http://www.wplug.org
>
>
>
>> ---- Original Message ----
>> From: Brian Makin <merimus at gmail.com>
>> To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
>> Sent: Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 2:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [wplug] Best programming language for beginner?
> &gt;
>> In that case... what kind of open source projects would you like to work on?
>> That should narrow your choices quite rapidly.
> &gt;
>> Every programming language has its strengths and weaknesses.
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