[Chester LUG] which programming language

[Stuart Burns]

Well two things, firstly, i looked at python  looks interesting and spend
the afternoon looking at it.

Secondly Les, do you mean we provide the course, they provide the premises
type thing ?

On 23/05/07, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stuart & Everyone,
>
> On a slightly different topic, in last month's meet we discussed the idea
> of having some sort of Ruby workshop.  I've investigated some potential
> venues for us to do such an event and have actually had an offer from an
> organisation to host it at no charge!  All we have to do in return is allow
> them to promote the event themselves and plug their services.
>
> I think this is a great option as we won't have to worry about hiring a
> venue or the costs involved.  I'll talk more about it at the net LUG meet
> (which is a week tomorrow).
>
> Les
>
> On 5/23/07, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here at work I have been given a task of building a program that does
> > general house keeping tasks on an image gallary (several gigs of images, all
> > mundane im afraid ;) ).
> >
> > So I went and broke out the old pascal compiler, and realised it was so
> > 1980s (which is when I last used it ;) ) and that it wouldn't cut it. I need
> > to create an image gallary, but none of the ones availabe either a) Do what
> > we want or b) too flakey/too many "toy" features
> >
> > Looking around I do need to learn a bit about programming as it stands
> > atm. I am not a *good* programmer, I just tend to hack bits together.
> > However I have several programs to help me here that I have concieved that
> > would do general admin task but I don't know what language is going to be
> > best to write them in and theres no way on this earth im going to touch .Net
> > !
> >
> > I was thinking Perl, but its just so "strange" or maybe Java. I'm not
> > really doing anything fancy but I really want to get coding. I did some very
> > very basic Java back at Uni, but its all forgotten now, although I do
> > remember about Objects, inheritance etc etc.
> >
> > Any advice ?
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Chester mailing list
> > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chester mailing list
> Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/chester/attachments/20070523/f8959338/attachment.html>