On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:39:34 -0800 (PST) Leo Mauler webgiant@yahoo.com wrote:
If not BASIC, then what would be the programming language of choice for the beginner?
Ideas accepted from all.
Instead of replying to parts of different peoples message, I'm just going to throw my two cents in.
I think it is a big mistake to start with a scripting language. I would strongly suggest learning enough C to understand compilation, runtime linking of libraries, basic memory management and pointers.
Then I'd go learn and use on a day-to-day basis a more natural language like Perl or Python.
My reason for this is, it's twice as hard to learn the other direction.
It's like learning shorthand and then 2 years later learning to write English.
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