From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-10T17:21:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Completely new programmer lacks direction

2008/12/9 Cameron Carroll <ubernoobs@gmail.com>:
> Hi. I recently picked up a beginning ruby book, having only lightly
> touched python and HLA before jumping into this, and I really lack the
> vision needed to form any programs. It's sort of a combination of not
> quite having a strong enough grasp over the language and its functions
> crossed against having absolutely no idea what kind of programs I want
> to write.

What is your motivation to dive into programming at all?  Are you
familiar with mathematics and formal logic?

> So I'm just wondering what all of your first types of programs were...
> simple, no doubt, but I'm just looking for a starting point.

Another reasonably simple program would be a disk cleanup: find all
files and directories below some know temp directories and delete all
of them which are older than N days.

Cheers

robert

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