A question about learning/schools.

From: James White (whitejmunged_at_etcsa.com)
Date: 02/17/04

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    I have a young nephew who appears to be developing into a natural
    geek/nerd/guru/whatever and as he learns I need to make sure that he stays
    on the side of the white hats, rather than going down the learning path of
    cracker/warez/illegal_downloading.

    I am retired and my fortran/cobol programming experience is not going to
    help him much. I have suggested that as a start he learn C++ to get in
    the nitty gritty of programming and perl to get things done. (A joke, no
    flames please). Fortunately I got him started on Linux rather than that
    other OS that his friends use.

    In my day learning was usually at a company's expense, or possibly at the
    college level although that was usually fairly basic - about what you can
    get from a book now. The company training is pretty much gone now.

    My question for you younger guys, is where did you get your start in perl
    or the current languages? Self taught, college, Internet tutorials, rich
    uncle?

    Thanks guys/gals
    James White

    "If you ain't stored your code in iron donuts, you ain't ever programmed"

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