I have a limited amount of JavaScript experience but I am about to start learning Python.

What was your first programming language? Are you self taught?

What was your first Linux project you coded?

:-D

I learnt with Python - my dad showed me the basics, and I just kept learning. The key to it is to do things you're enthusiastic about in it; learn what you need in order to do that, and then move on to the next project. I'm now no longer a novice in C/C++ (I might even hazard the word 'competent'), so it does work!

First linux project? Well, my first project, I think, was a times table programme (it tested you on your times tables). I can't remember my first project on linux...

Good luck, anyway! The programming forum is always open for questions should you get stuck

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Thanks for that Snark :-)

I have read quite a few tutorials and am ready to get my hands dirty I think - start breaking and repairing things...

A CD-ROM driver in the kernel for some long-forgotten architecture

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Ahhhh, it's definitely the breaking that's the more important that's when you start to learn.

My first 2 languages were Applesoft BASIC and RPL. My first "real" language after that was C++, then many others. If not being formally taught is the same as "self-taught" then I must be self-taught. A better way to put it is "taught through books, web pages, message boards, tearing apart other peoples' code, and experimentation." My first project that started in Linux and was Linux-specific was a framework to split applications into smaller, special-purpose processes. I used that project to teach myself about the majority of the POSIX API.
Kevin Barry

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Hi there!

My first language was C. I used C for the first time for math purposes. My first "big code" was a module to determine if a given point was inside a given triangle in the IR^2 plane.

I then moved to C++ and Java and became a fan of Object - Oriented programming! To me, C++ is beautiful! I wrote my undergrad thesis entirely in C++ and I had a lot of fun!

Nowadays, I work in API design under C++ AND their interaction with others languages and technologies including GPUs!

I learned by myself using two important books:

- http://mcgraw-hill.com.mx/cgi-bin/bo...&division=mexh which helped me a lot to learn about algorithms.
- http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-.../dp/0131103628 which utility should be obvious since it is the bible!

I then went to college and got my Licentiate degree in Computer Science!

For object orientation and C++, my favorite books is this guy:

- http://www.amazon.com/C-How-Program-...ref=pd_sim_b_1

Hope you can take a look at these guys If you want to keep improving your scope on languages! I DID NOT mean the product placement, but these books are really good!

Good luck!

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Zen! Thanks for the points! \m/ Feel free to bug me regarding documentation! I am an avid collector!

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