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Re: [LUG] Summary Todays Holsworthy Meeting - June 17th

 

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, John Williams <subbass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 14:00 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, John Williams wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for the input so far to everyone, PHP was mentioned and I hadn't
>> > thought of that one. I do think Gambas would be good to move onto, get
>> > into that then perhaps also start on php or I am still tempted by
>> > Python.
>>
>> Maybe it was me who's mentioned PHP - I do a lot of stuff at the
>> command-line in PHP (as opposed to a back-end/CGI script run by a web
>> server).
>>
>> It might actually be an easy way into procedural languages as it (almost)
>> completely avoids data typing - at a superficial level, anyway. A variable
>> can be a number, a string, or some fancy type which is really a pointer,
>> but hidden from you...
>>
>> It's also quick and easy to run and debug, but a prerequsite to using it
>> is good knowledge of the command-line - you'll need to know how to edit a
>> file (and nano is fine to start with before moving onto vi or emacs), and
>> basic commands to list files, ls, cat, more/less, pwd, mkdir, cd and so
>> on...
>>
>> I guess starting in "Basic" gives you a ready-made "IDE" with a limited
>> set of commands which might make it easier... And I've just had a play
>> with 'brandy'.. And it's almost like I remember it - fiddly keywords
>> required to be in capitals )-:
>>
>> Gordon
>
> Ok I think I will cross off PHP. I am 100% comfortable on the command
> line but it would be even more for the lad to learn to get started.
>
> Thanks :]
>
> --
> John Williams
> My linux blog of notes and guides
> http://subbass.blogspot.com/
>

Is pascal still used to teach programming. I believe it was developed
as a teaching language? We used it in college (13 years ago - heck im
old! lol lol)

Best wishes
roly :-)

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