Introduction and Advice

[Kevin D. Clark]

Jake Tingley writes:

> My name is Jake and I live in Warner.  I am a high school math
> teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and
> doing some programming.
> 
> What is the best way to get started?
> Is there a particular distribution I should be looking at?
> What is a good first language to learn?
> What do people think are good resources (both online and books)?

What kinds of things do you want to program?  What are your goals?

Things that I like that you might like too:  Fedora (linux
distribution), Perl (programming language), gnuplot (graphing
package), _The Little Lisper_ (programming book), Java, C, Ruby,
_Puzzled Programmers: 15 Mind-Boggling Story Puzzles to Test Your
Programming Prowess_ (another book), _Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal
Golden Braid_ (yet (another (book))).

Regards,

--kevin
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