[Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Harris
Hi Elementary os Devs, I am trying to get started with programming Vala so I can give back to the Elementary community. In the past I have programmed with visual programming languages like scratch and MIT App Inventor. I started reading https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Tutorial but i

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Craig
Unfortunately, vala isn't a very easy language to get started with, and I haven't found any awesome, comprehensive resources. Personally, I couldn't figure it out until I learned C. I have quite a bit of programming experience and I really like helping people, so fire off an email if you have any

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Craig
On the subject of good starter languages, python is really good and has some good starter material, but Go (golang.org) is nearly as easy and will teach you more about how things work in statically typed languages like vala, java, c#, c, c++, etc. On Jul 27, 2014 11:48 AM, David Gomes

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Ryan Rohrer
+1 for learning with go. Their interactive tutorial on their website is awesome! -Ryan On Sunday, July 27, 2014, Craig webe...@gmail.com wrote: On the subject of good starter languages, python is really good and has some good starter material, but Go (golang.org) is nearly as easy and will

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Daniel Foré
If you're totally brand new to programming I would suggest Codecademy. They have a great interactive JavaScript tutorial that introduces you to programming concepts like variables, methods, arrays, etc.Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Craig