Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

2005-09-22 Thread Allan Whiteford
Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi Raj, snip 'widely' used with Linux (and other operating systems, but there are lots more languages of more minority interest (Fortran, Brain-f*ck, assembly...). snip Fortran - minority interest?!? Bah! :) Thanks, Allan

Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

2005-03-29 Thread Martin Habets
Welcome Raj, The only book you need to buy is a C manual. Once you know some C you can look for programs with source code on the web for whatever area you're interested in. Most programs you can think off have already been written. The c compiler program in Linux is called 'cc' (or maybe just

Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

2005-03-27 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Friday 25 March 2005 16:20, somarouthu venkata raja sekhar wrote: Hi everyone...I am raj n I am new to this group. I am a student at edinburgh uni n interested in understanding n writing code for linux. can some one help me out with some advice becoz thers lot of books n stuff available on

Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

2005-03-27 Thread steve
Spend time reading -- www.linuxtoday.org --- www.inuxjournal.org --- and as many Linux web sites as you can find for the first few weeks, this will give you a good understanding of the culture you want to be involved in. Decide what takes your fancy for programming (languages) and start

[Scottish] New to the group...

2005-03-26 Thread somarouthu venkata raja sekhar
Hi everyone...I am raj n I am new to this group. I am a student at edinburgh uni n interested in understanding n writing code for linux. can some one help me out with some advice becoz thers lot of books n stuff available on the net but dont knw whr to start properly...thnxs Send instant