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> I heard a podcast (Ubuntu UK) this summer which featured a dentist who was
> in the same predicament so he wrote his own application for dentists. I am
> not suggesting that you do the same, but it is interesting how different
> people tackle a problem.
I have the same problem with medical file management software, I still work under Windows on that, but the memebership for support and updates is expensive, I couldn't even install 2Xcare, that is a free program and works under GNU/Linux. So I bought a book in amazon.com and started self-learning Python programming. I still don't know if I would be able to write a medical application, but is fun trying to resolve all the problems like "write a function to calculate a triangle knowing just 2 sides and an angle" or "calculate Pi developing the Archimedes approach using an n-sided polygon", or "write a function to calculate the Fibonacci sequence..." That keeps me busy in my free time.
I have to comment something about a previous thread, where one member of this group was complaining that the "experts" in this forum only give complex answers that are not suitable for newbies (at least, that is what I understood about his complain). When I'm stuck in a problem in Python, and I post my problem in Python forums, they never give you an answer, they ask you what is the problem and why are you stuck on it, and they just point you in the right direction. When you finally post a right answer, they post many different ways to achieve the same result, but just once you already resolved it by yourself. I like that because that is an effective way to learn (and to teach). This group has a different profile, but I comment this, because many newbies can benefit from those ways to approach a problem. And we all can learn a lot.
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