Sounds great to me. Now if we had a converter that would convert a significant percentage of VFP code to python, you would probably see a lot of people with a better future. I can assure you that the next time we rewrite code, it will not be in a language that is tied to a single operating system and/or vendor.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Suggestions for high school kid wanting to get intoprogramming 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 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
