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- From: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: How to teach C++ to a 35 year old
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 04:11:51 GMT
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- Joshua Goodall (jjg@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- : weikel (weikel@rohan.sdsu.edu) wrote in comp.lang.c++:
- : > I'm trying everything in my power to get my SO interested in
- : > learning to program, but he won't do it. He won't even write
- : > "Hello world". He claimed that he had a bad experience in college
- : > and it has ruined him for programming forever. However, he can
- : > write a huge convuluted DOS batch file faster then I can blink.
- : > Go figure!
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- DOS batch coding _is_ programming, though not the most flexible, or
- powerful. However, for Windows programming have him try Delphi, VB, or
- the new VB look alike.
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- Elliott
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