i have considered programming in the past, i know html which is easy and i bought a book from pcworld which teaches you how to use microsoft visual studio and program visual basic on windows through a GUI interface. but i wouldnt know where to start on linux , can anyone tell me would i be working from the command line which can be tedious or is linux programming done on an integrated development environment like visual studio? i have an oreilly book called unserstanding the linux kernel which i find too difficult, can anyone recommend an entry level book?
________________________________ From: Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> To: Dorset Linux User Group <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013, 12:13 Subject: Re: [Dorset] opensource projects Hi Nicky, Adrian Howard wrote: > * You might want too look at some of the more ops-related projects > (chef, puppet, vagrant, etc.) As an aside, http://ansible.cc/ is another in the chef/puppet area. > I'd also - in the long term - think a bit about not wanting to code. > More and more stuff in the ops field need some developer skills to go > along with the ops skills. Agreed. Even a pure sys. admin. needs to be able to investigate problems, set up ad hoc monitoring, poke around data, read the source of a program to fill in the documentation's gaps, and analyse a running program, e.g. strace(1). Ability to knock together shell scripts and a couple of dozen lines of Python is very handy. It's a bit like debugging a program but on a bigger scale; the OS and all the dynamically-loaded plugins it's running, commonly known as programs. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
