On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > G is right on all counts. ... > That said, if you start with a few beginner articles, > and please do the exercises they have, you will learn. The exercises > are important to lock the information with the potential errors that you > will encounter, and the effort needed to correct them. The problem is that today, just about anyone publishes a book about anything and they become repetitive or just rewords of another title. Finding good beginner's material is not easy. If I had the time, I'd go to some community college to take a class or two. > Like G, I started a long time ago, from vacuum tubes, and while the > circuits have changed, the elements of design and software have not. > Almost everything I ever learned has benefited me. Man... you guys actually saw the birth of computers. It's like having been present at moment of the Big Bang. I can only imagine you blowing up light bulbs in the garage. :-) ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines