I've always been interested in software developement. I used a source code to make a really cool windows app once. Now that Im on linux its like programer heaven. I just was wondering the best way to learn how to program and write my own software. What would be the best language to start off with and what tools should I use to teach myself.

Thanks!

Start with what looks good to you.

Python is very simple compared to more strict languages like Java.

Pascal is notably the strictest of the many languages out there.

C, C++ and C# are popular options too.



The best way to learn how to program is to program. Try to write programs that do something, even dumb things like having a gif of a cat running after your mouse will help you learn programming. Start small and build from there.

Note: you don't have to learn everything, just what you need to know to do what you want to do.

Yeah I basically want to mess around. But the only code BackGround I have is HTML. sooo uhh. Are there any resources I can use with simple comands so I can get on my feet with programing?

http://www.python.org/
Most Linux distros have this pre-installed.

You can't get much easier than Python.

Ditto

To help learn C it I would recommend "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie -- they are the guys who designed the language. It's a very useful book.

I started with Python, and once I got a couple usefull Python programs working (I made a cool custom mail handler thay my system uses to this day) I started breaking into the Python modules that let you itegrate C into your code, once I was comfrotable throwing chunks of C into my Python, I moved to making just plain C. I still use Python a great deal, though. It's my favorite.

Alight thanks guys. I'll try python when I get home but I'm at school now, but I can always VNC but thats way to slow for mytaste :-)

how about ssh? Maybe using -X option...