Linux offer great tools to develop software, but there is little effort to promote them to beginners.
If you look at the competitors, they offer unified development platform and associated documentation. Have a look at XCode+developerConnection and VisualStudio+MSDN, this is ideal infrastructure to get new programmers.
It would be nice to have a dedicated website to inform people about the development on Ubuntu. The website could help people to make their first software, help them to begin with the main IDEs, and give links to get further information on the official website of the language/IDE/framework.
Such a website should be very appealing and simple to help the beginners. Help in lot of language would be a plus since lots of people don't speak English.
More developers means more people to implement the idea of Ubuntu Brainstorm :)
Developer comments
While I think that it is a great idea, it's not something we in Canonical should put resources to, at least not now. This is a great community task!
