Language Learning

Part I
You will be learning one modern language and one old language as a basis for comparison to the concepts we are learning in the course.

The "modern language" will be chosen from Python, Ruby or Lua with the restriction that you must not already have written anything in the assigned language.

Two students will receive the same language. You are free to trade languages with another student but at the end of the first class you will have a language to learn!

Obviously, the first program will be to write "Hello, World" to the screen or as output to the console. You should be able to demonstrate the program on the projector in the classroom either by bringing you laptop or showing a screen capture from your dorm computer.

Be sure your program contains attribution comments!

Part II
Ch2: Find an example of "Hello World" in COBOL, FORTRAN II, PL/I, BASIC and ALGOL. Be sure to label what version of each language it is in. You will be assigned one of these languages as your old language" exemplar for the semester.
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Install Python for windows (save to disk)
Install Ruby for windows (one-click installer)
Lua is installed on Buzz -- on windows use with puTTY (save puTTY to disk)