On 12/23/07, Paul Williams <paul(a)skenmy.com> wrote:
I know some basic Python and Perl, but my main
languages are
VB.NET and
PHP. Obviously I know (X)HTML, JavaScript, CSS. I have experience in
writing IRC bots in PHP and in modifying eggdrop bots with TCL. This can
probably be ported to Python.
There is perlwikipediabot, too. And I saw at Wikiversity that someone
were made a simple bot in C#. So, your knowledge of
VB.NET may be
useful for making bots, too.
The point with my forcing Python is in sharing methods, as well as
small amount of time needed for learning Python. Actually, any
non-programmer who knows to *use* computers at advanced level [i.e.,
to install, deinstall, configure etc. some program on Windows] should
be able to learn Python in a couple of days at most. And this is not
the case with the most of other languages.
There are IRC bots written in Python and usage of those bots is
growing on WM channels because of their portability with
pywikipediabot.
So, of course, you are welcome to join :)
P.S. I will add some more data on our course page today.