On Jul 8, 2007, at 3:05 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote:
> My nephew saw a project I'm working on (in VFP9 of course!) and really
> got excited about what I do. He wants to learn programming. I'm
> looking for recommendations on where he might go to get a good
> fundamental basis for programming (via websites or books).
I second Jeff's comments about Python. It is much more general-
purpose than VFP, in that you can do stuff that has nothing to do
with data at all, and you aren't tied to a single platform. One of
the guys in our user group writes a lot of the embedded logic for
Xerox's machines in Python that runs on some custom OS used for those
circuit boards.
Sure, you can do desktop apps with Dabo, but you can also do web
apps just as easily. You can write shell scripts easier in Python
than in bash, sh or zsh, and Python code is so much easier to read
than Perl. The software that is used for this list is written in
Python, as is SpamBayes and BitTorrent.
IOW, the possibilities are endless. That is extremely important to
someone starting out. It would be a very bad move to limit oneself to
a single vendor or a single platform.
-- Ed Leafe
-- http://leafe.com
-- http://dabodev.com
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