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- From: Martin Pool <martin>
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old? The definitive reply
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:54:32 GMT
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- >Hey same here I am 14...learning C++ and other languages..I am
- >not lazy or a dork. Sterotypes are dumb. Right now I know a
- >lot of people who are my age that may not be learning
- >programming and stuff on the computer but use the computer all
- >the time and they are definitely not dorks.
-
- Good for you! I'm 19 now, and I remember getting learning BASIC & Logo when I
- was in primary school.
-
- Computers just seem to be a young person's game, really -- although there's
- plenty of exceptions.
-
- >I just find the computer so powerful and so much fun to play
- >around with. Why watch tv when you have millions of channels
- >on the internet to turn to...? Or a million things you could be
- >creating right now...
-
- People expect sometimes that if you're into computers you must play games a
- lot. I barely ever do -- blasting aliens hardly compares to really *creating*
- or understanding something.
-
- /\/\---
- Martin Pool
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