Tim Chase writes: > What level are you starting at? Beginner programmer? Experienced > application developer but new to web or database coding? There are a lot > of > good resources for free on the web, but it would help to know where you're > coming from. Particularly the answers to the following: > > > > - do you have *any* programming experience? (shell scripting, a rusty > college Pascal class, or whatever) Yes. I have been programming in C for about 15 or 16 years and have also done some assembly language programming for the 8086, 68HC11, PIC microcontrollers and even the 6502. My background is not computer science, however, so I am sure there are big holes in my knowledge base and yes, I did take a college pascal course years ago and even used it once to fix some code related to the Motorola 68HC11 evaluation boards. That was in about 1991. I run our campus domain name servers and DHCP servers which all run FreeBSD UNIX and I use Linux here in my office and at home so I write shell scripts for things that don't really need C. Recently, I got thrown in to the ocean so to speak and inherited some servers that have php and sql as well as apache on them and I have never felt so stupid in my life. When I look at php code, I can pretty much tell what it is trying to do but I really no very little about fixing it yet and the natives are getting restless. It's been about 3 weeks since I asked these questions and I greatly appreciate all of the answers I have gotten including the links to free documentation. There is money to be spent but let's try the free stuff first. Sometimes, it is the best. I just needed a good place to start from. Oh yes. I have dabbled in html and even put up some very simple pages so I just need to bring it all together a little more systematically. This is a good list and thanks again. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list