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- From: st95h6e9@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Luke Cassady-Dorion)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old? The definitive reply
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:34:50 -0500
- Organization: Drexel University, Philly, PA
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- In article <4danli$llb@news.onramp.net>, oa@iah.com (Rick Lutowski) wrote:
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- > thecrow@iconn.net (The Crow) wrote:
- > >Whether you start with C or C++ is irrelevant, learning one will allow
- you to
- > >learn the other with ease.
- >
- > This is true of the syntax, but not of the methodology or theory
- > behind them. C and C++ are two totally different languages
- > conceptually, in spite of their surface similarity.
- >
- > If you know C and are thinking about learning C++, first go to
- > a local university library, find some papers written by David
- > Parnas, and read them to learn about information-hiding. Then
- > go on to some of the other OO authors like Booch to learn about
- > classes and inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic binding.
- > Once you think you understand those concepts, you are ready to
- > learn C++.
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- When I began studying Tae Kwon Do my instructor told me that in Korea
- before he was allowed to begin learning the Tae Kwon Do movements he was
- forced to sit and watch others practice for months and months. The classes
- which he taught in the USA started ppl doing the moves from day one. What
- is my point? Over the past few years changes in education have come about.
- Ppl are learning in more interactive ways. This is because these ways
- work! We learn by doing! If one reads and reads about OO and other topics
- before he trys to implement them he will have a much harder time
- understanding the concepts. Go out and buy yourself a good book on C /
- C++, and then sit down and bang yourself in the head until it all makes
- sense to you. Then while you are studying the concepts read some of the
- above papers to reinforce the concepts. I mean in no way to discredit the
- above idea of studying the papers to learn the rather difficult concepts,
- I just think that they should be read during studying and not before. (God
- I'm long winded aren't I:)). Something to think about.
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- Luke
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- Luke Cassady-Dorion
- Drexel University, Philly, PA
- College of Art and Sciences
- Computer Science
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