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Hi Neo...
Brilliant!

Hi samthewildon...
(Apologies for typos, etc...)

I back everything Neo has said.
I am an amateur coder, I do it as a serious hobby, but when I first started coding it was on a Sinclair Spectrum using its default BASIC.
I had a Sharp MZ80K before that but its BASIC was convoluted, and initially put me off coding entirely.
However Sinclair BASIC was idiot proof, syntax errors were impossible as any line with one could not be entered directly or into a _script_.
This meant any errors were coding ones, mine and mine alone.

As an electronics engineer I decided to write a testcard program for the Spectrum, it took me a while but by trial and error I learnt things like, simple loops and decision statements. I wrote other testing snippets too for my professional work.
Well although it wasn't perfect it worked and this is what got me into hammering hardware, because drawing in the Spectrum's border was very, very limited in BASIC.
So I decided to learn Z80 assembly, I was told this was FAST, and it was a revelation. I bought a commercial assembly compiler, (by HiSoft).
It turned out that because of learning BASIC, Z80 assembly coding became second nature; and, the result being I started drawing inside the border crosshatch lines and colour bars.
This transformed my testcard and became my standard, FREE CRT alignment tool until I got my AMIGA which got me into ANSI C, a language I don't use much at all now.

I STILL code in BASIC in various platforms for quick and dirty stuff, as proof of concept for an idea.

I have coded serious stuff for the AMIGA, including an AudioScope with a full non-standard GUI which is probably my best piece of work and that was finished in 2001.
I was proficient in Python and a few other languages and all but abandoned them now in preference to UNIX shell scripting, although even after 6 years I am still only scratching at its surface as it is SOOO flexible.
When I joined in Jan 2013 I bragged about doing an AudioScope in text-mode shell scripting and it is still going on here, six years later.

SO, find something that you are interested in that requires software and start learning, words like mutable, immutable will appear in your vocabulary which I didn't know 15 years ago until I started with python. Python is a powerful language and has a library for just about EVERYTHING you need coding wise.

My pet love is coding stuff that a language was not designed to do and I have gotten the shell to do lots. I am now considering doing AudioScope in 'dash' but that might be a step too far with my POSIX compliance knowledge at present.

You do not need a maths and/or computer science doctorate, just an accepting mind and the ability to logically create code, BUT, most of all, patience and LOTS of practice.

Bazza...

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capisuite

CAPISUITE(8)															      CAPISUITE(8)

NAME

       capisuite - Python-scriptable ISDN telecommunication suite

DESCRIPTION

       CapiSuite  is a Python-scriptable ISDN telecommunication suite. It uses the new CAPI interface for accessing your ISDN-hardware - so you'll
       need a card for which a CAPI compatible driver is available. Currently these are all cards manufactured by AVM and some Eicon cards.

       This man page only gives a short introduction, for the real documentation please see the HTML or PDF manual distributed with CapiSuite.

       CapiSuite tries to give the user the ability to code his own ISDN applications without having to fiddle around with all the dirty  program-
       ming details like callback functions, data buffers, protocol settings and so on.

       I  took	a  scripting  language which is (in my opinion) very easy to understand, to use and to learn - especially for beginners: Python. I
       extended it with some functions providing the basic ISDN "building blocks" for the users application. Behind these functions the  heart	of
       CapiSuite  implements all the dirty details a user isn't interested in. My goal was to make script-coding as simple as possible but to also
       give you the flexibility to realize what you want.

       To give you an impression, coding a simple answering machine is as easy as:.IP .nf def callIncoming (call,  service,  call_from,  call_to):
       connect_voice (call, 10) # answer call after 10 secs audio_send (call, "announcemnt.la") # play announcement audio_send (call, "beep.la") #
       play beep audio_receive (call, "call.la", 10) # record call .fi

       Of course some details are missing like creating a unique filename or storing the additional information (called and calling party numbers,
       time, ...) - but I assume you got my idea.

       And - don't be afraid - if you just want to have a normal answering machine or send and receive some fax documents, you can use the default
       scripts distributed with CapiSuite. They give you already some nice features - e.g. the answering machine  is  multi-user  ready,  supports
       automatic  fax  detection and remote inquiry functions. You'll only need to tell CapiSuite some details like your own number, record an own
       announcement and that's it.

       So CapiSuite is already equipped for your daily telecommunication needs - but if you don't like to do the things the way I do - just change
       it  or  completely  do it on your own. And if you write nice scripts or have changes to my default scripts, I would love to get and perhaps
       make them available for all users if you don't mind.

SEE ALSO

       capisuite.conf(5), fax.conf(5), answering_machine.conf(5), capisuitefax(1)

AUTHOR

       Gernot Hillier <gernot@hillier.de>.

																      CAPISUITE(8)