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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Suggestions on where to begin? Post 12395 by odinwolph on Friday 28th of December 2001 03:46:15 PM

12-28-2001

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Hi ITDrew

Well I hope this post doesn't come to late.

MY sugestion for you would be to start with learning unix. And after that start with the programming part.

Unix is after all quite different from Windows and MacOS. So I personaly wouldn't recomend that you would start to learn to program in unix and learn unix at the same time. These kind of things take some time. Java would have been a good place to start programming since it is platform independant. But that is another story. (But worth looking into since the step from C/C++ isn't that big. Another reason is if you will be working on many different platforms (operating systems) it is quite handy not having to rewrite the program intirely to be able to use it.)

OK... I'm leaving the subject now....

Simple version of what I want to say to you:

Learn Unix first and after that learn how to program in that environment.

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