[ILUG] What would I need to know\study to make GUI's & scripts

[P at draigBrady.com]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> With no programming background.
> 
> What to I need to help me develop the
> skills\ understanding to create GUI's
> for Linux.
> 
> & scripts to help automate tasks

Well you can combine the best of
both worlds with a very powerful
scripting language (python) with gnome's
GUI toolkit (GTK). I've a tutorial
and some examples here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/talks/pygtk/

For most (simpler) automation tasks I would
recommend using shell scripting rather
than python as it is less general and
hence easier to read/write for unix
admin tasks. Search for "shell scripting" here:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/LDP/

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