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<blockquote data-quote="Ecko" data-source="post: 456112" data-attributes="member: 24874">Comparing all these things with opinions gets nowhere unless you have empirical evidence to back it up.Everyone has different ways of learning. The way I started was much smaller since open source projects weren't really that big or readily available. I started on Windows but open source got me curious, and shortly after I setup FreeBSD on its own partition with dual boot. Bash was one of the first things I started to learn and for the most part it was simple things like making aliases to run a one liner. Gradually it became silly projects like login via IMAP with PHP and return the subject on any new emails. On Windows, you would have to open your browser or email client to do this and it was usually a multi step process. For me it was just &quot;php /php-scripts/checkmail.php&quot;.After that I got more into gaming and Quake 3 allowed scripting in the client, and started making rocket jumping scripts where one hotkey made you look straight down, switch to a rocket launcher, shoot, then look back to right before you pressed the hotkey. Then it was RuneScape Classic and botting, where writing scripts in very basic Java was the norm since all the good scripts were private and cost $$.All it is is taking things you enjoy and finding a practical way to learn from it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ecko, post: 456112, member: 24874"] Comparing all these things with opinions gets nowhere unless you have empirical evidence to back it up. Everyone has different ways of learning. The way I started was much smaller since open source projects weren't really that big or readily available. I started on Windows but open source got me curious, and shortly after I setup FreeBSD on its own partition with dual boot. Bash was one of the first things I started to learn and for the most part it was simple things like making aliases to run a one liner. Gradually it became silly projects like login via IMAP with PHP and return the subject on any new emails. On Windows, you would have to open your browser or email client to do this and it was usually a multi step process. For me it was just "php /php-scripts/checkmail.php". After that I got more into gaming and Quake 3 allowed scripting in the client, and started making rocket jumping scripts where one hotkey made you look straight down, switch to a rocket launcher, shoot, then look back to right before you pressed the hotkey. Then it was RuneScape Classic and botting, where writing scripts in very basic Java was the norm since all the good scripts were private and cost $$. All it is is taking things you enjoy and finding a practical way to learn from it. [/QUOTE]

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