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Top Forums Programming OK another question... Post 89305 by jim mcnamara on Friday 11th of November 2005 04:39:41 PM

11-11-2005

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Okay.

As an example, to be a reasonable UNIX programmer you should

1. Be able to use an editor - vi, emcs, vim, whatever
2. Be able to use command line tools like grep, diff, join, tr, awk, etc.
And be able to use regular expressions at least a little bit.
3. Be able to write quick shell scripts to do things that take way too long
to type or edit. Shell= ksh or bash avoid csh
4. Be able to write small programs in Python, Ruby, or Perl.

After that, you can learn C or SQL or whatever else you want.
Shell scripting is programming, so is Perl, Python & Ruby.
Take the list and work down it, don't jump to #4 until you have
some ability at #3, for example. Somewhere along the line it helps to
learn things about Math, and how operating systems work, too.

Don't start in trying to write Ansalon bot code.

jim mcnamara

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game-data-packager

game-data-packager(6)						   Games Manual 					     game-data-packager(6)

NAME

       game-data-packager - build a .deb of game data

SYNOPSIS

       game-data-packager [ -i ] [ -d out-directory [ -n ] ] game [ game-options ]

DESCRIPTION

       Many  open-source games require game data which is licensed incompatibly with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  game-data-packager is a
       tool designed to help you locally assemble Debian packages containing such game data from CD-ROMs, the Internet or elsewhere.

OPTIONS

       -i     attempt to install the generated Debian package via dpkg(1) and su(1)

       -d out-directory
	      writes the generated Debian package to the specified directory.

       -n     Do not attempt to install the generated Debian package. This option must be used in conjunction with -d.

       game   The game being packaged. Running game-data-packager without arguments will display a list of valid games. Running game-data-packager
	      with just the game and no further arguments will display a list of valid options for that game.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1), su(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2010 Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
       Thanks to Branden Robinson for his 'Write the Fine Manual' presentation, once found at <http://people.debian.org/~branden/talks/wtfm/>

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