On 3/12/10 3:55 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:23:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Catlike<[email protected]>
Subject: [GRASS-user] What scripting language should I learn?
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I am brand new to GRASS. I am just learning QGIS now, and GRASS seems (from
the forum posts) to be useful if not quite essential with QGIS.
I have no idea what most of the answers (or the questions!) mean on these
fora, QGIS nor GRASS. It looks like I need to learn how to write computer
scripts. OK -- resources being limited, which language do you think I should
focus on learning? I hear about Python (in QGIS), R, SQL, ... Can't learn
them all! So I need to choose one, right?
My GIS experience is limited. I got a 24-semester-unit, two-year GIS
certificate, but that was six years ago, the program was not too good, and I
haven't used it at all since. (It was 95% ESRI-based, the rest TNTmips.)
Thank you.
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Catlike,
If you're using either OSX or Linux, bash scripting is a wonderful entry
to learning how to automate tasks.
However, before you get to scripting, I suggest you spend some time
learning how to use the Grass-GIS commands at the command line. That
way, you'll be familiar with how the commands work before you try to
script them.
I'm very nervous of the day when I'll have to try to learn Python to
write scripts!
It is also very valuable to learn MySQL for querying linked tables.
Although Grass-GIS can be daunting, it can be learned. When I started
using Grass-GIS in 2006, I had zero GIS experience!
Cheers,
Richard
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