Mark Rowe wrote: > On the issue of Perl or Python, I would recommend Python. It is very > easy to learn and is extremely powerful. It also has the advantage that > the code that you write is easy to read in six-months time.
I second this. I consider myself a reasonably competent programmer. It only took me an afternoon to become quite proficient in python. Within a few days, it was (and still is) my preferred language for nearly all programming tasks. There is an online book somewhere "How to think like a computer scientist", which, despite its title, is only an introduction to programming. It's quite good for learning python though. There are c++ and java versions available too I think. Use google to find it. Cheers, -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc Christchurch, New Zealand. |
