Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:02:37AM -0500, tedd wrote:
As a side note, I think students should learn a language like C before
learning something like Perl, Python or PHP. Having to deal with
defining/declaring variables and their storage methods before use I
think makes for more conscientious programmers. And pointers are an
education all on their own. ;-}
For teaching programming or OOP I would choose a language which
concentrates on the topic. The hard stuff, which you have to deal with
in C for example, can be learned later. I'm glad that I started
programming in Pascal, not in C. If today I had to learn programming as
such I would definitively opt for Python! My choice for learning OOP
would be Python or even better Java cause you don't have the choice to
do it in a procedural way.
Marcus
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