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- From: felinoid@ccnet.com (Jeffery C McLean)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old? The definitive reply
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- Date: 22 Jan 1996 10:38:52 -0800
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- Alberto C Moreira (amoreira@nine.com) wrote:
- : babycox@aol.com (BabyCox) wrote:
-
- : >> Also, if you still find DOS confusing, programming isn't for you. I see
- : >a lot
- : >> of kids who want to learn programming or at least brag about their
- : >abilities
- : >> with computers, but really these kids are just fat lazy dorks who think
- : >there
- : >> cool cause they download hacking programs from AOL.
-
- : >I find this very insulting, I am a 14 year old (not a kid). I learned
- : >BASIC, before I was in school, learned Logo in first grade, and am now
- : >very proficent C++. I am not lazy, I am not a dork, and I do not see many
- : >other teenage programmers that would fit either of thes descriptions, and
- : >I don't appreciate people who resort to name calling just to prove a
- : >point.
-
-
- : Go, guy! Some grown ups out here actually agree with you.
-
- When I was 17 a teacher in HiSchool was trying to covence everyone
- (Felow students, my parents etc) that I didn't know computers
- and that I couldn't posably know computers. Eventualy she showed the truth
- is she was JUST learning how to USE a computer and felt a little challanged
- by the fact that a student in her class knew more than her.
- My mother even presented a fist full of letters from computer experts
- a University Prosesor and a congratulations on winning first prise
- in our contest letter...
- This stuff should be enough to get me a job NOW... but I was 17
- and as far as that teacher was conserned no one could know computers
- and not be in Colage...
- Well things have changed but I still kinda get anoyed when
- an adult said kids are just bragging when they talk computer programming.
- I am 26 now... Ok I am JUST NOW Learning C... My pore Vic20
- didn't do C... It did Basic and ML... so I learned both... and Forth
- (Got a Forth language cart later)
- I feal kids SHOULD learn programming early....
- I also feal thies adults who hold kids away from computers should get
- a dose of reality... "Computers stifle creativity"
- I don't think ANYONE who knows computers would make THAT clame... That one
- comes from artests who rely on "traditional matreals"....
- I don't think anyone ever said painting stifles creativity... or music...
- computer artests would easly chalange that notion anyway...
- Jeff
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