Hey All, As I think I said in my other email, I am just finishing Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" 2nd edition and I also lifted a copy of "Learning the Bash Shell" (O'Reilly) tonight that I'm starting to get into. My question/request is that I'm very excited to be learning these new things but I don't really know what to do with myself now. I'd like to have some relatively novice-level code to read and maybe some suggestions for beginners projects to help flex my new muscles. 1. What are some open-source programs that someone of my experience level could look at and try to tinker with that will help me to understand more about programming? 2. Since I'm starting to learn bash as we speak, what are some tasks that would be helpful and a little bit challenging for me to try to figure out how to automate with a script? 3. Last and *certainly* not least, what are some fun things I can do with what I know? Call me a newbie, but I don't yet see the gaming application of C. I used to write neat text-based games in QBasic when I was a little kid and I'd like to learn how to do more complex ones and maybe even graphical ones with my new bag of tricks. Any suggestions on where to turn for a start? Any current games whose code I could look over? 4. Ok, so this is the real last one: Once I start pushing my C a little further I'd like to expand into another language. I know the two most common suggestions will be Java and C++, and I know that everyone will say eventually I need to learn both. Well, which will give me the most immediate satisfaction? Does it make more sense to learn one before the other? Just looking for a few suggestions, I know these debates can get pretty testy. If it makes any difference, I'm really aching for something I can apply to some sort of game programs, even very simple ones. Thanks as always for your time, Respectfully, Isaac "While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation." - L. Susan Brown, "The Politics of Individualism", www.infoshop.org/faq
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