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- From: jjg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Joshua Goodall)
- Subject: Re: How to teach C++ to a 35 year old
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- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:28:51 GMT
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- 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!
- > Anyway, if anyone can think of a way to lure him into wanting to
- > learn programming let me know. There hasn't been a lot of demand
- > for his current skills and I'm sick of hearing about Jerry
- > Springer.
-
- Try this:
-
- "Hey Bob. You like DOS batch files? Try them in Unix!" and then buy him
- a Linux distribution. Then teach him BASH. Then say "Hey Bob. BASH has
- got this great command; it's called AWK." So teach AWK. Then say "Hey
- Bob.... BASH has another great command, it's just like AWK. It's called
- PERL". Then you have him cornered, oh yes.
-
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- Joshua Goodall
- Maths+CS Student/RISCOS Developer/Saxophonist
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