[wplug] Best programming language for beginner?
David Brown
dmbrown512 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 18:35:03 EST 2013
I've been a beginner programmer all my life, in various environments. I
was able to teach myself elementary Python through a combination of
tutorial websites, documentation websites, and an old book I found at
Half-Price Books. Also, there are tons of free packages and libraries
to build on. I found a package that reads an iTunes library into a
bunch of lists, read it and learned from it, modified it, added a main
program with a lot of other stuff, and in a few weeks I had a suite of
programs to help manage my iTunes library that I still use regularly.
It reads my library.xml file and creates various maintenance playlists
and shell scripts. Emacs has M-x python-shell that launches a python
interpreter in a terminal window - extremely useful for testing code
fragments or idioms.
dmb
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS + Python 2.7.3
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