About programing, a general question
Parshwa Murdia
ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 15:29:35 UTC 2010
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM, K. Frank <kfrank29.c at gmail.com> wrote:
If you want to go the c++ route, I would advise you to start with c++.
>
> To quote Marshall Cline, from his "C++ FAQ":
>
> [28.2] Should I learn C before I learn OO/C++?
> Don't bother.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-learn-cpp.html#faq-28.2
>
> As Colin and Rob also emphasized, there are a number of
> disadvantages to learning c as a bridge to c++, and there
> is no real benefit.
>
> Except in specialized circumstances (which don't match what
> you say you want to do), I would not advise anyone these days
> to learn c as a language in its own right; learn c++, instead.
>
> C++ is the way to go.
>
>
> By the way, BASIC is not the way to go:
>
> Real Programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers
> write in BASIC... after age twelve.
>
> (Oops, my daughter is still twelve...)
>
> See, for example:
>
> http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html
>
I liked the last link you gave (
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html), its cool. Though your
daughter is not even twelve, and you are making her learn C++, nice, and she
might be the biggest programmer, i guess. Agreeing with you.
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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