Re: [gnome-love] Where to start?

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 05:59, Matt Thompson wrote:
> Hello, I have a few questions.  Everyone always says that the best way to 
> learn programming, is to find something you want to program, and then figure 
> out which language woul best suit your needs.  Well, I am very interested in 
> creating a fantasy sports league manager software.  I was thinking of making 
> it web based, since i'm guessing most fantasy baseball owners are windows 
> users.  The only programming I know is basic, and some very basic cobol, from 
> a college class I took.  I am very interested in using this a a learning 
> experience.
>
> The final program hopefully would have a good draft program, player 
> transactions, automatic scoring updates, and a player database going back 5 
> years or so.  
>
> I want to make this using open source tools, so I was wondering what you guys 
> thought i should tackle first?  If this is an improper list to ask these 
> questions, where would you suggest i ask?

You should first learn perl or php for your web interface coding (CGI)
and mysql perhaps for your database backend. I don't think gnome is much
of a use in this scenario.

-- 
Regards,
-naba

Fast, cheap, good: pick two.


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