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Maeya wrote:And then your head just aches from having your hair pulled so tight for so long...
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - Edsger Dijkstra
lyion wrote:If you don't mind a suggestion, I'd start with the Kernighan & Richie C programming book first. Once you master base C, then you can code in anything. OOP is a small step from C.
http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Lan ... 0131103628
It's interesting so many people are still starting to code in basic. I started programming in Apple's form of basic back in the early 80s. I wrote portions of BBS software and helped a friend create his own multiplayer game based on the Phaze book series. While learning in basic was fun and easy, if you want to be a serious programmer then the K&R C book will help one take the next step. From what I've seen it's still the best way to go.
lyion wrote:In college we started with Turbo Pascal, and moved to Fortran. Both were good for learning code, but worthless in the real world of business.
Maeya wrote:And then your head just aches from having your hair pulled so tight for so long...
Lyion wrote:If Hillary wins Texas and Ohio, she'll win the nomination.
Tossica wrote:Seriously, there is NO WAY Sony is going to put HD-DVD out of the game.
Narrock wrote:Yup, I ... was just trolling.
Narrock wrote:I wikipedia'd everything first.
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