getting started with cygwin?
Michael D. Crawford
crawford@goingware.com
Thu Sep 20 23:18:00 GMT 2001
A guy wrote to me who wants to learn how to program. He found some helpful
advice on Microsoft's website that said he should learn visual basic. He bought
a 600 page book and the first 200 pages just talked about the IDE and didn't
cover code much.
I had the sense that he would be happier working with Cygwin. I suggested Linux
also but then he would have to learn to install and administrate it, I thought
Cygwin would be better to start because the installation is so easy.
He only knows a little basic from college, but he says that is the course he did
best in.
Can you suggest any books or websites I can refer this guy to about how he could
become both a productive user of and programmer of cygwin?
Getting around the shell and some editors would be a big start. Then there are
many websites for the different languages available. I know the python tutorial
at
http://www.python.org/ is very good. So what I'm asking for doesn't have to be
Cygwin specific.
Mike
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