Hi,

I have about 5 years experience in windows programming using Vb. I find myself pretty experienced with the Windows API and system-design. I also got some _very_ basic C knowledge. I also got about 3-4 years of Linux experience(and I love it, the GNU open Source politics really have convienced me).

The problem is.. I want to develop under Linux. When someone asks me "I need this database solution, could you fix it?" then I don't want to only run Linux on the servers, I want to use Linux all the way(GUI on KDE workstation ie).

The problem is, I got no knowledge in Linux programming.
I've read alot of documentation(alot of the glibc manual and so on) but when it comes to the actual writing of the code I just stalls. I just don't get anywhere - with a big sigh, not knowing where to start. It's so heavy starting from scratch, writing hello world programs.
All projects I want to do are so advanced compared to my knowledge, which makes it difficult to start learning.

Do you have any ideas on how I should getting started? Very easy but rapid progress..


best regards,
Cyth

I believe you are talking about C under linux right ?
if it's the case, I had the same problem, and I had duties to do with having no idea what to do.

Just search for tutorials and keep practicing, you will not learn by just reading, don't worry about crashing antyhing, because you won't.
Don't forget the magic command "man" and man -k if you weren't sure about the name

There's zilions of examples out there, on every subject i believe (I/O, math, sockets,...)

If you can buy some book it will be faster for you to get it all toghether.

Same apply for shell programming....

If you're starting from scratch and want to program GUI stuff now, why don't you try Kylix? It's basically Delphi (visual pascal) for Linux. There's an 'free' (as in speech) edition for d/l at Borland's website (Kylix OE). I know it's not C, but if you're not getting on with C too well, you could give it a go! It feels very much like VB, but is a bit more powerful.