Once you can program in one language you can easily pick up a new one in a few days. Why those languages? Well, for a start they have very different styles to Python so form a useful contrast, and more prosaically if we accept that most Web surfers who are also beginners are using PCs with Microsoft Windows installed, there is a programming environment built in to the operating system called Windows Scripting Host which has support for VBScript and JScript (which is Microsoft’s variant of JavaScript). In addition anyone using Microsoft’s web browser can also use these languages within their browser, and in fact JavaScript should work in almost any browser. We’ll only look at how to run VBScript and JavaScript inside a browser, investigating WSH I’ll leave as an excercise for the interested Windows user!
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Whether you are a first-time buyer or are upgrading your computer system, when the time comes to make your computer buying decision, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available to you. There are thousands of computer advertisements in magazines and newspapers which list detailed technical specifications for their products. To get the best deal on a computer that meets your needs, you need to understand what these technical specifications mean and how they will affect your computing power. This Buyer’s Guide will help you to organize your purchasing decisions. This guide also includes a worksheet that you can use to summarize your specifications for a computer and compare prices and features.
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OPEN LOOK is a specification of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A GUI determines the `look and feel’ of a system — the shape of windows, buttons and scroll-bars, how you resize things, how you edit files, etc.
The OPEN LOOK GUI is specified, developed and maintained jointly by Sun Microsystems and AT&T (or USL?).
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XView was developed by Sun Microsystems and is derived from Sun’s proprietary programming toolkit, SunView. It is an easy-to-use object-oriented toolkit that provides an OPEN LOOK user interface for X applications.
XView Version 3.2 includes minor bug fixes with no significant new functionality.
The XView Reference Manual has been expanded from the Attribute Summary of the previous edition of the XView Programming Manual and is now published as a companion volume.
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This book is written for computer-literate folk who want to use Subversion to manage their data. While Subversion runs on a number of different operating systems, its primary user interface is command-line based. It is that command-line tool (svn) which is discussed and used in this book.
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