On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/2/9 tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi gang: >> >> At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they >> don't want to settle on a specific language. >> >> My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the >> general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need to see how concepts are >> applied to understand how they work -- thus I think a specific language is >> required >> >> I lean toward C++ because I wrote in it for a few years AND C++ appears to >> be the most common, widespread, and popular OOP language. >> >> However, while I don't know PHP OOP, I am open to considering it because of >> the proliferation of web based applications. My personal opinion is that's >> where all programming is headed anyway, but that's just my opinion. >> >> With that said, what's the differences and advantages/disadvantages between >> C++ and PHP OOP? > > C++ is a good option, but if OOP is the focus it might be better to > use Java or similar where you don't need to worry so much about memory > management. If you're dealing with people who know C then C++ will > work well, otherwise not. The worst thing you can do is skip over the > details of C++ development because you want to focus on OOP. You'll > end up with a bunch of people who *think* they can code in C++ but > really haven't got a clue. > > Personally I'd have preferred my university to use Smalltalk, but none > of the professors knew it so I had to teach myself. It's the original > and IMHO still the best implementation of OOP concepts around. > > -Stuart > > -- > http://stut.net/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > "Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay -- http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
