New To Programming

[soritong]

Hi everyone. I am just getting started with programming (not completely, I have some VB experience on a Windows machine).

Anyway, I am planning on making a small key/scroll/click counter for a linux machine. Any ideas on where to start? I don't even know what I'm going to code in. Are there any good C++ editors around for GNOME to use?

[nemin]

Hi everyone. I am just getting started with programming (not completely, I have some VB experience on a Windows machine).

Anyway, I am planning on making a small key/scroll/click counter for a linux machine. Any ideas on where to start? I don't even know what I'm going to code in.
I'd start with a few simple CLI programs, just to get some programming experience. GUIs will come later ;).
For example, google for a simple C tutorial, compile it with gcc, that would be a good start I think:) Later you can have a look around what you really want to learn.

[muzver]

soritong

If you are serious to learn something try this book (http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf). It gives a lot of essential information how your PC works, and how to program it using linux. I would say it a must for starters. Besides it has a vast list of exellent books on linux programming.

[ubuntu_demon]

How did you learn to program
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=8682