easy intro programming exercise?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:53, Nicholas Vettese wrote:
> I am not a programmer, but I really want to learn.  Is there any
> information on the BASIC programming language in Linux?  I heard there
> were some Visual Basic type language(s), but do not know where to find
> info on them.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

How about trying a scripting language ?
I'd suggest Ruby (www.ruby#lang.org), it's really easy to learn and very 
clean. There are also KDE/Qt bindings for Ruby in kde cvs.
Many people prefer Python, so you could have a look at it too.

Have fun :-)
Alex
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