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Old 3rd October 2008
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
In my experience, people without a problem to be solved, give up learning programming very fast

Why don't you start learning sh shell programming?
You run a BSD OS and knowing sh will enable you to write some scripts to help you in administering your own OS.

Agreed. The same is true of Perl, however, and Perl is more likely to teach you more of the basics of actual programming (having extensive libraries available at the tip of your fingers by CPAN, etc is nice as well.) In reality, learning Perl isn't all that difficult.

My personal approach to learning a language is to begin breaking other peoples' working code and then fixing it, then eventually changing it to make it friendlier to my own way of doing things. I've found that this is often a good starting point, for me at least, once I've read one or two chapters in a book to understand the basic syntax and grammar.
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