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I agree with most of your points, except... Use gedit as your text editor. It's the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system, and works well enou

by rudiger 16y ago

I agree with most of your points, except... Use gedit as your text editor. It's the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system, and works well enough for programming, and is significantly easier than Emacs for someone just starting out programming. I'd also suggest MySQL instead of PostgreSQL, for the same reasons (works well enough, significantly easier for beginners).

forkandwait 16y ago
Postgres is no harder than MySQL, except maybe to set up; plus, postgres wont bite you in the ass down the road due to the plethora of reasons that make MySQL a pretty lame solution these days. On the other hand, MBA types will have heard of MySQL -- that might be an advantage, of a sort.
chamakits 16y ago
I agree with you in that emacs isn't ideal for starting out (though I've been using it in the past few months and I'm not going back). But may I recommend geany instead? Its a pretty good GUI text editor. Alternatively Kate...it is quite awesome too.