Re: A beginning programmer

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Eric egriffit...@gmail.com wrote: But I just don't know what to do with it, I don't have any problems that need to be solved... There are always more problems to be solved than people willing to solve them! It's just a matter of finding ones you're interested

Re: A beginning programmer

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Griffith
Shell scripts are ones that I do all the time, sometimes in BASH sometimes in python + system calls. A lot of the mainly for post-install setups of Ubuntu / Fedora / Arch trying to take some of the load off of my hands in a way that I actually know what is going on behind the scenes. But I'll

A beginning programmer

2011-07-10 Thread Eric
Greetings everyone; Fresh High School graduate here with a passion for problem solving. My last 2 years of HS I took programming courses (actually fairly good ones; yay for good tech departments) that showed me QuickBasic VisualBasic C++ Java (in that order) A friend of mine often talked about

Re: A beginning programmer

2011-07-10 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/11/2011 12:06 AM, Eric wrote: My problem is this though... I don't know what to do with this new found knowledge of these languages. I'm a linux user so availability of development tools is haaardly a problem. But I just don't know what to do with it, I don't have any problems that

Re: A beginning programmer

2011-07-10 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 2011.07.10 05:06 PM, Eric wrote: But I just don't know what to do with it You and I are quite different. I don't enjoy programming much, but Python is a great tool to accomplish a few goals that I have. I don't have any problems that need

Re: A beginning programmer

2011-07-10 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/11/2011 12:22 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote: On 07/11/2011 12:06 AM, Eric wrote: My problem is this though... I don't know what to do with this new found knowledge of these languages. I'm a linux user so availability of development tools is haaardly a problem. But I just don't know what