RE: Learning more/Linux programming books
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:35 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote:
> >
> > >>You can start with any language. For a complete beginner, I would advocate
> > >>Scheme. Even if you don't want to do big projects in Scheme, you can start
> > >>very fast. A good book on programming (using Scheme) is Structure and
> > >>Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson/Sussman.
> >
> > I don't know, I think if there were a language to start newbies out on,
> > it is perl. Don't have to worry about many of the things that other
> > languages force upon you yet gives you a good gounding in how those other
> > languages work.
>
> How does Python rate as a beginners language?
I would recommend Python <www.python.org>.
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