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Perl.com
Perl makes writing Twilio telephony applications simple and enjoyable. My previous article, Automating Telephony with Perl and Twilio showed how to use WWW::Twilio::API to make a phone survey using Twilio's text-to-speech synthesizer as well as send an SMS message to a phone number of your choice. To begin, install WWW::Twilio::TwiML and Mojolicious using your favorite method (see the previous article for more ideas). You'll need a Twilio account (it's free to create an account, plus Twilio gives new users US $30 for calls--plenty for several weeks of testing). The previous article covers installation and getting setup with a Twilio account in more detail.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. I did the following power search at Amazon.com : pubdate: after 1992 and title: days and (title: learn or title: teach yourself)Debugging is the cornerstone of being a programmer. The first meaning of the verb to debug is to remove errors, but the meaning that really matters is to see into the execution of a program by examining it . A programmer that cannot debug effectively is blind. Idealists that think design, or analysis, or complexity theory, or whatnot, are more fundamental are not working programmers.
How to be a Programmer
Python
Python is a popular, free, cross-platform, open-source computer programming language that is in wide use. It has no licensing restrictions that would prevent its use in commercial projects. It has a rich set of libraries for scientific and technical applications. Support, tutorials and documentation are widely available.