Not from the inferno.
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Want to program?
Make up a to do list of your days activities. If that is easy for you then, you might be a programmer. Path to programming. Know a subject that gives you reason to program Learn logic Learn the syntax of a possible language that looks interesting Apply practical examples till you feel comfortable. Learn to debug. Work as a maintenance programmer. Develop a plan for the program you want to write and describe in detail what is to be done (see below), Code in manageble segments via modules. Test and redo the program as needed. Pseudo coding makes life easier. Dump web page as ascii (text) to disk file. Read disk file one line at a time in, but ignore all lines till you get what is needed. Now continue reading one line at a time, but ignore certain lines With the line you read in output what is needed, while editing out unwanted characters. Stop output when you get to a point nothing else is needed. Finnish reading file one line at a time. End....
What's reasonable?
Was watching The Today Show and they had a segment where Microsoft was going to help out some schools and their computer educational programs with a free gifts of MSWindows 8. With articles like http://www.zdnet.com/mit-professor-windows-8-is-a-Christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-7000008479/ makes me wonder what MSFT is really up to. After a year, the school systems will probably have to start paying for licensing (also known as the Microsoft tax). So the MSWindows 8 will put the school systems possibly even in a worse situation. To add insult to injury, if the school system can not pay for software, they probably have not updated their equipment recently. So to run the so-called free MSWindows 8, the school system already stretched for money will have to spend a whole lot of money to upgrade their computer equipment just to install and run MSWindows 8. So how is that a bargain? Enter open source.... In fact, one such free operating system that predates linux by abo...