How to learn to develop ?

[pinguino99]

Hi all,
I work in the IT for long time, anyway i only learnt to develop programs in mainframes (iseries, or sap systems) , so in never learnt C, or visual basic etc.
I have some free time i would like to spend learning something that can be helpful to develope in the linux enviroment. Even for GUI apps.

I'd like to hear some suggestions : which is the best language to learn? any books? Considering i am not a "virgin" in the programming field.

Thanks to all

[StunnerAlpha]

If you want to develop fornlimux systems there are a lot of good languages out there but I would recommend C/C++. I also find python to be a joy to program with and have to recommend that as well. As for books I find that there are some really good free online tutorials for both languages so just google them. If you must have a book I would wait and see what others say.

[JordyD]

I believe this is covered in the stickies here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006666

and

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006662

[koonsolo]

If you want to program close to the hardware and learn a lot about the inner workings of programs, I would recommend C.
If you want to be extremely productive, get results fast, I would recommend Python.

[nvteighen]

Heck... I hate these threads in which someone comes up asking something it is already answered in the stickies and, no matter how many people do the effort to answer to the OP, that OP doesn't ever seem to appear again.

[minerbog]

What a can of worms you have opened here!!!!!

Development as a rule is simple. A computer take input calculates and produces output. Crud I know but at its basic level thats all it does!!

I got the bug for programming back when I had my first specy 48k (with rubber keys!!). Nothing in the basic programming structure has really changed. There are still variable, functions, loops etc etc.

My point is, the first PC language I learn't was VB (Urrh) but soon picked up C++, Java, PHP and python. So in my opinion learn what you feel comfortable with and the rest will follow.

[dwhitney67]

Heck... I hate these threads in which someone comes up asking something it is already answered in the stickies and, no matter how many people do the effort to answer to the OP, that OP doesn't ever seem to appear again.

Stop being cynical... that's my job! :-)

[nvteighen]

Stop being cynical... that's my job! :-)

Excuse me, never noticed that ;)