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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/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq