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Re: Just thinking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Sun Nov 17 16:05:32 1996
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:07:58 -0500 (EST)
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Jason Harrell <jharrell@basenet.net> wrote:
> I am kinda new to Linux so I admit I don't know much but this I do know.
> Linux is a GREAT operating system! I am a computer science student at
> Southern Illinois University. I am trying to get a Linux group started;
> I'm talking to one of my CS professor now. At our university, we
> primarily learn C++/OOP programming. In addition, our advanced courses
> include Visual Basic 5.0 and Windows95 programming course. But what
> about X Windows programming? (Can anyone suggest some good books on X
> programming?) I want to, as well as the group I'm trying to put together,
> contribute to the Linux community like many others have. We would like to
> contribute in a way that will give linux a little more usage at the home
> (i.e.Quicken, online encyclopedias, Netscape plugins, and etc.).
I think looking at Python & WPY would have have strong educational and
'community service' benefits. Python/WPY would let you learn cross-platform
(Unix and Windows and Mac and ...) RAD (rapid application development) using a
byte-compiled/interpreted, object-oriented, extension, embedding, and scripting
language.
Python also covers a lot of the same territory that Java is trying to claim
exclusive rights to, but with Python you'd also get to look at all the source
code. Because of its exceptional ability to re-use and leverage legacy code,
you would also likely be able to find several projects to make engineers or
physicists or ... at your University very happy by breathing new life into their
FORTRAN and/or C code.
Besides, reading textbooks with references to Spam and dead parrots can actually
be fun!
Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.
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