Transferring from Windows to Linux as a programmer

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Did any of you do any sort of project to get yourself more familiar?

The main thing for me was to simply start using Linux as a matter of course. I used to have a SuSe install, then found Ubuntu around 7.10 or so. I had a dual-boot on the old desktop, and still do on the Laptop as I need windows for a couple of work-specific programs like my audio analyzer. Anyway, the breakthrough was to stop trying to learn Linux whilst using windows to do "real" work, and start using Linux as a matter of course and only go back to windows when I was stuck on something that had to urgently get finished yesterday. Now, I never start windows on the laptop or the netbook unless it is for one of those specifically work related programs. I always fell sorry for my laptop when I am at work... My desktop has no windows install.

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Thanks for all the responses guys
So since I'm a CS student and I have so C++ projects this semster, is there anything that you'd recommend to learn about Ubuntu/Linux regarding coding? I've been told to give Vim a try, which I intend to do this weekend. Anything else?

[Promille]

Thanks for all the responses guys
So since I'm a CS student and I have so C++ projects this semster, is there anything that you'd recommend to learn about Ubuntu/Linux regarding coding? I've been told to give Vim a try, which I intend to do this weekend. Anything else?

Use a IDE that you're comfortable with. Since I'm at an introduction course to programming(Java) I want as little help as possible, so I try to learn "the hard way". Therefore gedit seems to work fine with me, or just simply nano if I have to ssh into the university's network. I also liked Geany(http://www.geany.org/) alot, since you can compile and run the program inside Geany. On the other hand I have learned that more experienced programmers tend you use more "intellectual" IDE's, in example Eclipse.

If I should give you some easy guidelines it would be

• Learn by doing
• Use the man pages for information about programs.
• Use this forum or #ubuntu(or programming specific channels) on irc.freenode.org for questions. Be humble and polite and you would be amazed how willing people are to help you. Good luck

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or codeblocks. cross platform and be used for several programming languages. Depending on what your classes are using you may find it impossible to do the work - in example: if the class is using Microsoft development tools then such things as developing a gui would be very different.