On 15/09/12 19:33, Adrian Warman wrote:
I think Leo's recommendation is Python.
In any event, I would also recommend it. It's platform-agnostic, it's
used by big companies (Google, anyone?), it can be run in a simple,
interpreter-like way (single line Basic, anyone?), it supports
object-oriented programming, there's lots of documentation and
examples freely available,...
Adrian
Excellent reasons Adrian. I always have to ask, what do you want to do
with it? If you are wanting to access databases you would use a
different language than if you wanted to do machine control. Because the
raspberry pi uses Python, I am working with it to control the basic I/O
functions, but not yet at doing anything with USB devices.
My python references are ' Byte of Python', and 'Dive into Python'.
I like interpretive languages like Basic, Forth and Python for learning.
I believe that there is an editor from which you can run your python and
then drop back to the editor, but I don't know what it is. It might be
Notepad++ in a W$ environment.
Notepad++ and Kate both display text in different colours depending on
their function.
Peter M.
Peter M.
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