From: bradmont@bradmont.net (Brad Stewart)
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: university studies?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:13:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010802111309.A29322@bradmont.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010801134647.D662@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108020819090.6003-100000@infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108020819090.6003-100000@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:24:45AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> One thing I will add, from long experience: If you learned BASIC
> first, then learn Pascal BEFORE you try to learn C or C++ as you'll
> come out a much better programmer than trying to learn C or C++
> directly after BASIC.
This makes me a little bit nervous... I used to program a fair bit in BASIC ((Q|GW)BASIC mostly), and started learning C++ after that. Could you elaborate a bit on the reasons?
Thanks
Brad Stewart
bradmont@bradmont.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-02 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 5:22 university studies? peter revill
2001-08-01 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-01 11:46 ` Erik Mouw
2001-08-01 14:12 ` Ian Stirling
2001-08-01 19:31 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-02 7:24 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-02 8:48 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 11:36 ` Muzaffer Ozakca
2001-08-02 15:45 ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-08-02 17:12 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 15:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-02 18:13 ` Brad Stewart [this message]
2001-08-02 18:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 18:46 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-08-03 10:05 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-08-03 10:51 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-03 13:02 ` asmith
2001-08-03 14:32 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 11:32 ` asmith
2001-08-05 14:09 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 14:19 ` (OT) " Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 10:05 ` Sean Hunter
2001-08-02 3:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 8:26 ` David Weinehall
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