On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:28:11 +0100
Richard Bensley <richardbensley@???> wrote:
> Excellent, you have the tools and motivation.
> Python is a great start, I use it every day, and it's becoming more
> and more popular as it spreads into education. The small businesses
> and charities think they can solve all their data needs in Excel,
> show them what you can do with Python and a database.*
>
Python is a very good introduction to programming. I have written
several projects using it.
One thing to be careful of, though, is that there are 2 distinct
versions of it - 2.x and 3.x, and they are not directly compatible. I
have converted several projects without too much difficulty.
Unfortunately there are still pockets of sysadmin stuff using 2.x.
After all, v3 has only been out since 2008!
Python is one of the languages on the standard Raspberry Pi
installation, aimed at getting children to program rather than just use
applications.
In fact a couple of Pis are a good way to practice both
programming and sysadmin. As the O/S is on an SD card, it is very easy
to swap to another setup. I have one card with a LAMP stack for when I
am doing web dev, and another on which I am trying out Asterisk. And
my file server is happily chuntering away on another Pi.
Oh, and Pis are very cheap
Regards
David
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