Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BAADCA9.9F4316E1@goingware.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:22:33 -0400 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: getting started with cygwin? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/