Chapter 17. Programming

Table of Contents

Learning how to program
C and C++
Java
Other programming languages
Development Tools

This section contains information to help you get started writing and running your own programs.

Learning how to program

Xubuntu provides a number of resources intended to help you to learn how to develop and run programs yourself. Below is a list of some resources which you may find useful.

Dive Into Python

Dive Into Python is a book for learning how to program in Python, aimed at programmers with some previous experience.

  1. Install the diveintopython package.

  2. To access the documentation, visit diveintopython.

PyGTK Tutorial

PyGTK Tutorial is a tutorial on developing with the graphical toolkit often used for developing Ubuntu and Xubuntu applications. It assumes that you have knowledge of Python but not necessarily GTK.

  1. Install the python-gtk2-tutorial package.

  2. To access the documentation, visit python-gtk-tutorial.

Devhelp

Devhelp is an application to read and search all of the documentation that you install.

  1. Install the devhelp package.

  2. Choose ApplicationsDevelopmentDevhelp.