I have written a program launcher with Perl and I tried to write a program in C++, but it didn't do object oriented programming the way I thought it worked.
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kahli R. Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:42 PM Subject: [EUG-LUG:2459] Re: KDE/GNOME programming > Ben Huot wrote: > > >Are there any books that teach programming from the very basics under X for > >KDE or GNOME? > > > >I would like to develop a GUI frontend for the Bible program BRS that use to > >come with Linux. Or I could use one of the more modern free versions online. > > > >Ben > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Maybe: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672318911/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/104-983 5413-0941569 > (KDE Development 2.0) > > or > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861003811/qid=1020036859/sr=1-2/ref= sr_1_2/104-9835413-0941569 > (Beginning GTK+ and GNOME) > > KDE and GNOME will insulate you from the lower level X APIs somewhat, so > general X programming book might not be what you want... > > Forgive me if I'm not interpreting this right, but when you say > programming from the very basics, I wonder if these might be too > advanced because they probably expect a certain level of familiarity > with general programming concepts. In that case, you might want to > learn the basics first and then jump into GUI programming. Learning an > interpreted language such as Python or Perl might be the ticket there. > I'm sure others might have other opinions about a good first language, > which I'm sure the list would be happy to entertain. What is your > background in programming? I might be able to steer you into something > to start with. > > Kahli
