Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread Jake Tingley
Hello My name is Jake and I live in Warner.  I am a high school math teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and doing some programming. What is the best way to get started? Is there a particular distribution I should be looking at? What is a good first language to learn?

Re: Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread mark
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jake Tingley jtingl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello My name is Jake and I live in Warner. I am a high school math teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and doing some programming. What is the best way to get started? Is there a

Re: Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 09:45 -0800, Jake Tingley wrote: Hello My name is Jake and I live in Warner. I am a high school math teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and doing some programming. What is the best way to get started? Figure out which LUG is the most

Re: Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi Jake, Welcome to the list. I will take a whack at your questions, and I am sure lots of people will chime in: What is the best way to get started? Well, you made a good move just by joining this list. :-) The next thing would be to find the closest user group to you, which is probably

Re: Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jake Tingley writes: My name is Jake and I live in Warner.  I am a high school math teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and doing some programming. What is the best way to get started? Is there a particular distribution I should be looking at? What is a good first