Query: Programming for the complete novice

Thymox · 04-10-2002, 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by Calum
Thanks for the reply, Acid! (you seem to reply to all my posts, i take it you live on these forums? )

Didn't you know? Acid is actually a mysterious entity that exists only as IP data.

gui10 · 04-12-2002, 09:58 PM

hm... well, i suppose if you want something more humanly intuitive than C or C++ or Java, you could try starting with perl... i think most unix systems lean quite heavily on perl?

hey acid... was it u who had the links to the free o'reilly books or was it tricky?

gui10 · 04-12-2002, 09:59 PM

eek... forgot the follow up questions

if you're the one acid, could u let me know where the site is again? i lost those bookmarks...

acid_kewpie · 04-13-2002, 05:55 AM

yeah it was me, but i've not got the bandwidth to host a mirror, as the original site went awol. i might compress some of the books and give the entire things for download to ceratin people i guess.

gui10 · 04-13-2002, 10:50 PM

that'll be cool... but if u can't it's okay. no obligations...

zmedico · 04-19-2002, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by acid_kewpie
well as a sysadmin you'll need a VAST knowledge of shell script, perl and awk. Also you'll possibly be required to program in python, ruby... And then on top of that there's the c/c++/java programming you may be required to do.

Well I'm no sysadmin (unless you count my home computer, which runs nicely), but I like to use Java like a "swiss army knife" of sorts. Sure I do some Bash scripting, but usually not extensively.

gui10 · 04-20-2002, 03:46 AM

java's quite cool... but hey, i'm no expert... just that i like things that can do the job. and since it can do the jobs i need done, it's cool enough for me...