Thanks! I'll have to look at those, since free programming books of good quality are sometimes hard to come by. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Re: free programming language > Outch!! ADA is syntactically complex, and has never gained much acceptance > in the software community. I'd really suggest Java. Its syntactically very > close to C, it is interpretive (although I'm not sure I've ever really seen > a read-eval-print sort of interpreter for it), and it is very very powerful. > It is free, modern, object oriented, continually being updated and improved, > and you can even do GUI stuff which is accessible. OK, so Freedom Scientific > has a bit of work to do in this area, but to get started, its pretty good. > > There is an excellent book called "Thinking in Java", by Bruce Eckel > available for free, and published in HTML on the web at > http://www.mindview.net in the books section. There is also a very good book > called "Thinking in C++ on the same site". I have read these books and they > are excellent, and very accessible. > > Hope this info helps. > > Rich > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: 11 March, 2002 11:38 AM > Subject: Re: free programming language > > > Hi Pete, > I don't know Ada myself, but I've seen Ada listings and articles in > programming magazines like Dr. Dobb's Journal. It seems syntactically > complex, much more so than say C++. > > Jim > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Pete wrote: > > > > > What about ADA as a starting point for learning programming? > > Pete > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
