Suggestion: Addition of Programming Languages to "How to Start Programming" Thread

[King Dude]

As of right now, the How to Start Programming thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=333867) has resources for beginner programmers for the following languages:

Ada
Assembly
bash
C
C++
C#
Common Lisp
D
FreeBASIC
Go (Golang)
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Squeak
Tcl
Vala


I'm thinking we should expand the list with some other popular and useful languages, such as the following:

Erlang
Scala
Lua
X10
Fortran
Haskell
COBOL
Delphi

Any thoughts?

[Bucky Ball]

Sure, go ahead and write them up.

[coffeecat]

I'm thinking we should expand the list with some other popular and useful languages, such as the following:

Erlang

Erlang is referred to in post #71, here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=1#post9536203

I haven't checked for the others, but you might want to go through the thread and see if the others are already dealt with before you add your own contributions.

Thanks for your interest!

[King Dude]

Cool. How should I go about posting my contribution once I write them up?

[coffeecat]

Cool. How should I go about posting my contribution once I write them up?

Go to the thread and click on the "Reply to Thread" button.

[King Dude]

Go to the thread and click on the "Reply to Thread" button.

It says that it's a closed thread.

And what if the learning resources for a language were a page on the Ubuntu Wiki rather than in a thread like it is now? It's just that I believe that would be a lot more organized that way.

[coffeecat]

Sorry about that. Didn't notice it was closed. It's open now and you're welcome to post, but I've got a better idea. The problem is that forum design is not well suited to this sort of thing, where the original list needs updating from time to time. Only the OP and staff can edit the first post. Wikis are much more appropriate for this, where wiki pages can be edited by any interested member of the Ubuntu community.

Have a look at this forum:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=428

And have a think about creating a wiki page for all this information. It would be useful.

Thanks.

[King Dude]

Yeah a Wiki would be fantastic for this. I'll see what I can do, thanks!

[King Dude]

Should I make the page on Ubuntu's wiki, or...?

[coffeecat]

Have a look at the sticky in the subforum I linked earlier. Community documentation should be here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community