On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:35:12 -0800 Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have any recommendations on how I should get started? > * Community college courses? > * College courses?
Always helpful, if you're not in full time employment. > * Self-study books? Probably the best source of information. Choose UNIX environment programming books, they're the most informative. I like this one currently: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131411543, covers lots, probably not much good to a beginner, so if it's C you're interested in, try this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393969452 College courses can be a bit useless unless it covers what you really want to know. Otherwise you will spend three years on a degree course to just learn to code, and that sounds like a waste of time to me. If you want to learn programming, spend 30 mins on the loo with a good book in your hands, it's worth 10 hours in the class room (added geek points if you have a wireless network and it's the pdf). -- Regards, Ed http://www.usenix.org.uk - http://irc.is-cool.net :%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
