Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

[Amirouche Boubekki]

On 2018-08-25 19:16, Joshua Branson wrote:
> Hello,

Hello and welcome Joshua


> I'm a recent college grad, and I'm trying to get into programming.  I
> figured I'd learn a little bit of C, so that I can play with guile and
> C.

You can play with Guile without much C knowledge and I dare to say that 
you
need little of C with things like guile-bytestructures or nyacc's 
ffi-helper
to use the full power of GNU Guile.

And to add to that, the trend in the VM is to reduce the count of C 
lines of code.


> I suppose that I'm a visual learner,

You can try [0][1]

[0] https://libfive.com/studio/
[1] https://dthompson.us/projects/chickadee.html

> and that probably helped me learn
> how to make websites.

Well, then I would recommend you look at cuirass project just over the 
rainbow in guix land [2][3]

[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git/
[3] http://berlin.guixsd.org/

I have projects of my own but they are not easy to get started.

Have look at this project https://github.com/a-guile-mind/azul.scm it's 
project of mine
it's small, it implements a minimal terminal based editor.

> Is there a programming resource for
> userspace/kernel software

what do you mean by kernel software?

> as good as w3schools.com?

You might not be aware that w3schools has a bad reputation of being 
"loosy". That said I find it
convenient as quick and dirty reference. I recommend to check mozilla 
developer network aka. mdn
when it comes to web stuff.


What do you want to make?



> Thanks,
>
> Joshua

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