Ubuntu newbie - I want to program

[martasrealm]

I agree. I've never tried to "learn" how to use linux, I just use it to do whatever I need, and in the process when I encounter some problem, I look online for help. If you stick with ubuntu, then pretty much any question you ever have will have an answer on an online forum. I've only really been using linux for a year, so I'd still call myself a beginner, but even so I am comfortable enough with it to know that even if I don't know the answer to a question, I'll know where to find it.

[mrfotheringham]

Interesting jmedero..."why" at the mo is probably the imperative - as for asking the questions, being a nwbie, the forums can be quite intimidating. Will look at the way I would like to go and look forward to much help.

Thanks

[nopycckn]

I only recently paid attention to The Geek Stuff and it's a good site to me for learning or refreshers.

[jmadero]

sure thing, always glad to share my opinion. I think that as you continue to see forums you'll see that the linux forums (regardless of if it's this one, the Suse one, the Ubuntu one, etc...) everyone is quite willing to help....i get most quesitons answered in less than a day and if I want to get the "why I just ask and someone will either link me or explain it themselves

[Rubberman]

Get comfortable with the man pages and info system. Most of your system documentation is found there. Two useful man commands are;

man -k name  # finds topics with 'name' in the subject.
man -K string # finds topics with 'string' anywhere in the document.