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- From: amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:05:19 GMT
- Organization: Number Nine Visual Technology
- Message-ID: <4d19i4$7g5@sundog.tiac.net>
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- dschrage@indirect.com (Dan Schrage) wrote:
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- >>Why should the beginner struggle deciphering a few
- >>pages of BASIC code, when they could breeze through the same amount
- >>if it were written in a Pascal like language?
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- >Why should a beginner learn Pascal with the intent of scrapping later for a
- >better language when he could just learn C/C++ from the beginning? The
- >difference in difficulty of learning Pascal vs. C/C++ has been greatly
- >exaggerated in this thread (I really don't think there was any difference at
- >all--If anything, Pascal made it more difficult to learn C.)
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- If the point is to develop healthy programming habits, every beginner
- should start with Scheme. Just see Abelson and Sussman's book.
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- _alberto_
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