"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 DijkstraOriginally Posted by Luciferek
Just thought it was worth mentioning
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
I started out with Basic
But from what I have seen of VB; I don't like it. Everythings a Dim?!?
Well, yes.
All variables are declared with Dim.
Dim Name As Type
Me too, even did VB for a while before switching to C++ at uni. I don't *think* I'm mentally mutilated, but then how would I know?I started out with Basic
QuantumPete
"No-one else has reported this problem, you're either crazy or a liar" - Dogbert Technical Support
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" - The IT Crowd
VB sucks!
I started out with vb in highschool too, and i dont think i've been mutated. But I got to say that once i started C++ i never wanted to go back to VB or any other language. I don't need that fancy shmancy ultra quick form and button development, i need a language that can do some stuff.
All I am saying that if tiachopvutru finds C++ too complex maybe he can try something ultra easy, but when he finds vb too complex i'm sorry, but maybe programming isn't for him.
Nope, I'm going for Python, right now, not Visual Basic. Probably because I'm hearing it a lot from others, but Visual Basic doesn't give me a good impression for some reason... In addition, I also want to use a language that's more "open."
Rather than complex, the amount of stuffs in C++ are overwhelming me. Since I have only finished about 1/3rd of the book I read, C++ may as well be complex for me right now. I don't believe I cannot do programming, however. Right now, I'm following Python since it's easier, so I can have a sense of being able to create something sooner and also to understand the process of programming before I get back to C++ with all the details.
Yeah, python should be fun. I'd like to learn it too if I can get around to it. It seems to be quite a flexible language.
My secondary school computing course teaches TurboBASIC (or is it TrueBASIC?), either way I'm doomed!"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
Just thought it was worth mentioningThing is, I'll have to learn it to pass.
Last edited by gin; 06-21-2008 at 05:58 AM.
