Hi I'm just starting to learn to program and stuff and I want to program Linux and I just don't know where to start so if you could help me the would help me a lot. If i said something wrong please feel free to correct me. Thank you very much.

Depends on what you want to program, C? Perl? Python? For the most part, they're pretty universal if you stick to the basic coding. It all depends on what you want do.

Yeah thats were im confused is what I want to do. I'm already learning python programing but were do I start on Linux?

i want to learn how to create applications compactible with mobile phones. where do i start?.

slashkele: Like many platforms some languages are easier than others. C is a good language to start with and most Linux distributions have C compilers to run applications written in C. As where to start maybe buy a book that introduces you to programming in C? Just my 2 cents.

Well I suggest C if you really want to be serious in programming world.

another vote for C from me; python+C seems good. Java for mobile phones. However in the office i have a particular dislike for individuals who learnt Java at college and then C++ from that, and then declare you can't use a "#define" to solve a problem with the compiler not handling the machines' instruction set, or that you can't use C functions or duplicate class definitions for reducing inter-file recompile dependancies when designing interfaces for a large program because it breaks visual-studio 'intellisense'. GRRRRRRR. worst of all are java types who declare "one class per source file" (no, thats a wasted opportunity to group classes into concepts, or a statement that java wastes filenames) mobile phone apps are small so should be ok for C if the world was working right :) - low-power devices hence would benefit from better low-level skills... Learn to [i]program[/i] then learn/demand tools to help you organize/interpret them. python-to-C is a very interesting research area (what are templates for? plus look at c++0x "auto" type..) [Modified by: ceti331 on August 29, 2008 06:25 PM]

For low level codes, like Linux kernel, drivers and so on, I vote C. For end user codes I vote PHP, which has PHP-Gtk for X (graphical) apps, PHP-cli for shell programming and PHP (Apache) itself for web and intranet programming. --- Fabio Berbert de Paula http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/