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- From: Michael Childers <childer@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Followup-To: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 14:43:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
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-
- When it is all said and done, I feel the majority of the posts to this
- thread are slightly strict. If the boy were college level and we were
- guiding his career future, almost everything posted here seems
- appropriate. However, he is a boy. He still has an interest to spark. If
- this were my son, i would let him try out the basic that comes with DOS
- that is on my machine. Then if he is curious about other languages, I
- would get him one of the many FREE compilers on the net to experiment
- with. The idea is to keep him yearning. Give the boy everything at once
- and he loses interest.
-
- When he finds a language he likes, go ahead and buy him a fancier one.
- You won't waste a lot of money that way if you get the wrong language for
- him or if he loses interest altogether.
-
- I have been told that there is a free C compiler at the web page below.
- check it out.
-
- http://www.hitech.com.au
-
- hope your boy has as much fun learning how to program as i did!
-
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