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