[Chester LUG] which programming language

[Les Pritchard]

On 5/23/07, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 ?


Yeah, pretty much.  It wouldn't be a course, just more of a workshop where
we get together and try some programming.  I would like to see it being
pretty informal.

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 ?
> > >
> > >
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