5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
2:58 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:58 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
I would rather learn with C than BASIC or PL/1
I don't know. I learnt programming with BASIC, and I turned out ok. C isn't going to teach you logic as well as a higher level language. You get lost in the details of the language instead of learning how to program.
C is a legend. Respect it.
Python and Basic are good languages to learn with because they abstract out the internals of the machine and data types from the programmer. Once the student has developed strong foundations in logic, he can learn anything.
It is ironic that most people feel that people who learn BASIC are very used to writing _bad_ code - spaghetti code they call it.
Fear teh GOTO!!
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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi
P.S.: BASIC was my first language too. Just for the record.