A few programming firsts

Kevin Day, September 15th, 2007

This week I wrote my first shell script, C program, and desktop GUI. Having mainly done web programming with PHP and Javascript, it was fun to do all these within a few days. Besides getting more efficient with Linux, these will be useful because I’m leaning towards buying a used Nokia 770 tablet that runs on a moble distro of Linux. It looks like there’s great documentation for the development platform, so I think I could be hacking a tablet within a few months. I already have some ideas for applications to write for it. Also, there’s times when I want to surf the web without hauling around my 17″ laptop, so I should get good use out of it even if I don’t customize it.

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