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- Path: jat.de!wnbbs!oli
- From: oli@wnbbs.nbg.sub.org (Oliver Duesel)
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Organization: Wrong Number BBS - Nuernberg
- Message-ID: <Dp30yA.5J7@wnbbs.nbg.sub.org>
- References: <4icpp9$7hr@barad-dur.nas.com> <4imqe4$cj3@ping1.ping.be> <1996Mar23.224853.116513@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:18:09 GMT
-
- Hi there,
-
- anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >Ask your teacher to stuff Pascal :-) Seriously, learn C/C++ on your
- >own. You will benefit from an early experience. I find it irresponsible
- >to teach students pascal. What is the bloody point? Teach C/C++, Lisp,
- >Scheme, Smalltalk, ADA, whatever, but PASCAL?
-
- Does it really matter by which programming language you train your skills ?
- ( ... don't want to start a '... but this is far better than ...'-thread ;-))
-
- The basics ( program logic, structure, modulization (sp?) et al ) are quite the
- same with all modern languages ( well, except BASIC ? :-)) ) - its far more
- important to teach those methods, i.e. prevent people from using formalisms
- considered 'bad', that is 'unstructured' programming, than to show most of a
- language's details ? Just to be more versatile in the end ...
-
- >To enjoy your Operating System and Compiler Construction classes later
- >on, you better be well versed in C/C++.
-
- :-) If you want to be a gardener, you'll take surgery-classes - that way, at
- least your cuts are nice and clean ? We're talking beginners here, aren't we ?
- SCNR :-)
-
- By(t)e,
- Oli.
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