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Operating Systems Linux Fedora FreeBSD Post 302381971 by treesloth on Monday 21st of December 2009 03:26:43 PM
Old 12-21-2009
Until recently, most of my work was on FreeBSD, not Linux; my learning started in FreeBSD, after which I started learning Linux. If you're reasonably comfortable in Linux, I don't think you'll have any problem. Of course, you mentioned that Cygwin is the extent of your UNIXy learning... I don't know how well you've learned Cygwin-- that can be either a very basic intro or a pretty good start. I use it a lot, and I've really liked learning it. Anyway, as for FreeBSD, I suspect that one would find the jump from Linux to FreeBSD about as difficult as a jump from one Linux distro to a moderately dissimilar one-- say, from Fedora to Debian. In your case, if I've understood, either Linux or FreeBSD would serve well as an introduction to "real" UNIX. There are differences to learn, but the basics are similar enough. Dive in... FreeBSD a great OS, and is well worth learning about.
 

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gvrng(1)																  gvrng(1)

NAME
gvrng - An interactive, introductory programming language. SYNTAX
gvrng [world file | program file] DESCRIPTION
Guido van Robot is a project developed by advanced high school students for use by their peers as a learning tool and precursor to the fur- ther study of programming with Python. It is a minimalistic programming language providing just enough syntax to help students learn the concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction. It's biggest strength is that it permits this learning in an environment that combines the thrill of problem-solving with instant visual feedback. In short, it is an interactive, introductory programming language that is excellent for learning the basic concepts of programming, applicable in any high-level language. Best of all, it's a whole lot of fun, too! At this point, you are probably asking yourself, "What is GvRng, specifically?" The gist of it is that it is a robot represented by a tri- angle on the screen that moves around in a world made up of streets and avenues, walls and "beepers", which Guido can collect or set. His actions are completely guided by a program written by the user. FILES
/usr/bin/gvrng /usr/lib/gvrng /usr/share/doc/gvrng AUTHORS
Stas Zytkiewicz - stasz@linux.isbeter.nl Waseem Daher - wdaher@mit.edu Steve Howell - showell@zipcon.net SEE ALSO
http://gvrng.sourceforge.net Stas Zytkiewicz 1.0 09/13/2004 gvrng(1)
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