Re: [Linux-aus] Computer Programming Courses in Adelaide?

[Paul Wayper <paul.wayper@anu.edu.au>]

Tim Ansell wrote:
> We would prefer an open source language like Python or PHP. Java would
> be a last choice.
>   
Are the online tutorials not enough?

My preferred way to learn a new language is to reimplement some
well-known wheel in it.  Pick something that you can start small and
work upward, adding new features and ideas and making it more complex. 
Pick a problem that solves a need you have now (rather than, say, a
widget sales department or Third-Order Chebyshev Filter resistor
calculator).  Write it in two or three different ways - an array-based
implementation, one using string storage, and one using files, for
instance.  Follow the (online) tutorials but apply the knowledge to your
own problem.

The only reason to do a training course, IMNSHO, is to get a certificate
at the end.  You can learn the same stuff just as well online or from a
book, these days.

Have fun,

Paul