About programing, a general question

[Colin Law]

On 17 December 2010 10:41, Parshwa Murdia <ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks a lot Joep. At times, it becomes difficult to decide but your opinion
> seems good to know the fundamental and then to swim with one. But I don't
> know why my intuition is saying me either C or Python (even for the
> fundamental concepts which remain same!)

Firstly I would advise against starting with C and later moving to
C++.  Start with C++ and you will start learning Object Oriented
design.  From C++ it is easy to drop back to C and C++ is not any more
difficult than C, just different.  If you start with C you will find
it much more difficult to move to Object Oriented design.

I think though that for starting Python might well be better.  You
will more rapidly be able to write code that does something useful I
think.  Once you have picked up the basics with one language then the
second one is much easier.

Of course what you could do is spend a day each working through a
'getting started' tutorial for each language you are interested in.
Then you will soon find which one you like.

Referring back to previous posts, Algol is of course the mother of all
languages, not Fortran.

Colin

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