for fun

[loserboy]

first of all I have no previous experience in programming :)

I want to learn by doing 2 things just for fun

1. make theme music for my desktop... hehe (i.e. make a super lightweight midi player without any GUI that starts at bootup and loops the tetris song C long enough for me to pull my hair out)

2. make an really simple inventory program for my business

if I could get any suggestions where to start that would be great

I'd like to do it in python from what i hear about it
so also if anyone knows a good howto to start at I would appreciate it.
thanks

[toojays]

1) A shell script may be the easiest way to go: just start a command line midi player (I think there is one called pmidi or something), and kill it after a particular length of time.

2) Maybe you want to play with something like Glom (http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). Not used it myself.

You can use Python with Glom. If you want to use Python for the MIDI player thing, see if you can find a python library which plays midi, and you're halfway there.

[loserboy]

Edit: nm im stupid