Any Techies here?

@Northwest LOL.

yep, I have those, was procrastinating getting to actual studying by asking random questions here.

And no, I am not a programmer, however, lately python seems so be necessary skill for anything you want to do. Automate automate automate..

@Bbgv14 If you're not a programmer, I would suggest you take a basic programming course in Udemy. It does not have to be language specific, just a basic introduction to programming.

@JoeyFoxx Yep, that was clear enough from Google, thankfully :p

@Bbgv14 lol

@RightSaidFred Yeah, I bought the Udemy 5 day one actually. Looked good and was very affordable.

Thank you so much for your inputs. Now I will stop procrastinating with SW and start on it.

@Nibblesnarf Yeah, thats what I started of yesterday with. Installed CentOS over Virtual Box VM. The only commands I recall from before are "cd" and "ls". I have to get into a bit of Loadbalancers at work, so I wanted to get used to the CLI and some commands for that. Show node, list etc. I think more or less I need to learn about "grep". I guess I need to find a server OS and go from there instead of a PC OS, not sure how similar the commands are.

Yep, I got the semantics,I guess. Getting syntax is the key. The "modules" are new, so thats something.

And thats the endgame. I want to learn how to script in python and use it do the show commands on the LBs. So long way to go..

@Bbgv14 Sounds like you're off to a good start.

I like how Python modules work, which might have something to do with it being my first language. Make sure you understand how "import [module]" differs from "from [module] import [something]".

A Python file (say, file.py) can be run from the CLI with "python file.py". If you insert a "#!/usr/bin/python" line at the beginning, you can simplify that to "./file.py".

It's also possible to execute CLI commands with a Python script. I've sometimes used Python's "subprocess" module for this. If you think that might be useful, maybe make Python do something simple like "ls -l" and use that code as a template for later on.

@Nibblesnarf Thanks! I will have to figure that out.

@stound something you may find helpful - 'virtualbox', it'll let you run a virtual environment on top of your (linux/windows/mac) machine without compromising the host machine or changing things around and give you things like snapshots.

@stound Got a Virtualbox with CentOS installed once I stopped procrastinating with random questions here.. :)