A beginning programmer

Date	2011-07-10 18:06 -0400
Subject	A beginning programmer
From	Eric <egriffith92@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.851.1310335600.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Greetings everyone;

Fresh High School graduate here with a passion for problem solving. My
last 2 years of HS I took programming courses (actually fairly good
ones; yay for good tech departments) that showed me

QuickBasic
VisualBasic
C++
Java

(in that order)

A friend of mine often talked about how nice Python was and being an
xkcd fan, i saw Python come up alot in the jokes. Python's awesome; I
see limitless possibilities in a very easy to understand and use
language that as xkcd put it "Programmings fun again!"

My problem is this though... I don't know what to do with this new
found knowledge of these languages. I'm a linux user so availability
of development tools is haaaaaaardly a problem. But I just don't know
what to do with it, I don't have any problems that need to be solved
and unfortunately I'm not familar enough with the languages (except
maybe c++) to help out the big projects like KDE / Gnome.

I realize this is the python mailing list and that I brought up some
non-python languages but I'm sure my situation is hardly new for those
looking to get into programming but having no idea of where to begin.

Any feedback is much appreciated!

-Eric-

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