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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: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:18:35 GMT
- Organization: Number Nine Visual Technology
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- jhughes <> wrote:
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- >When it is all said and done, I feel the majority of the posts to this
- >thread are slightly strict.
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- And square. There's more to programming than C.
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- > If the boy were college level and we were
- >guiding his career future, almost everything posted here seems
- >appropriate. However, he is a boy. He still has an interest to spark. If
- >this were my son, i would let him try out the basic that comes with DOS
- >that is on my machine. Then if he is curious about other languages, I
- >would get him one of the many FREE compilers on the net to experiment
- >with. The idea is to keep him yearning. Give the boy everything at once
- >and he loses interest.
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- I would try Logo. A good start is Microworlds for the Mac.
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- >When he finds a language he likes, go ahead and buy him a fancier one.
- >You won't waste a lot of money that way if you get the wrong language for
- >him or if he loses interest altogether.
-
- Very true.
-
- _alberto_
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