About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John Haxby <john.haxby at gmail.com> wrote:

Actually, no, C is dead easy to start but it gets really difficult really
> quickly.  Consider these for a beginner:
>
>   * Write the declaration of signal(3) -- it takes two parameters, an
> integer and a pointer to a function that takes an integer paramater and
> returns void.  Explain why the parentheses are needed.
>
>  * Why does "a + b == 0" work the way you expect but "a & b == 0" does not?
>  Are you sure it doesn't?
>
>  * What is the difference between "const char *s" and "char * const s"?
>
>  * What is the difference between "char *s" and "char s[]"?
>


Absolutely no idea dude.



> Admitedly the very first of these is not likely to come up as a beginner,
> but the other three will, and they'll bite you good and hard.
>
> C is not a simple language, it has a lot of subtlety and it is incredibly
> expressive, but I would not use it as the beginning language for someone who
> wants to learn to program.  I'd start with a language that was designed
> carefully.  There aren't any Algol68 compilers any more :-) but I'd choose
> python or java to learn to program.  Once you know what you want to do then
> you can go for something else, something applicable to what you want to do.
>  When you know the basics those questions about C are still difficult, but
> at least you're not trying to understand them at the same time as knowing
> what happens to a parameter when you pass it to a function or, for that
> matter, what a function is.
>
> jch
>


For Python I am agreeing with you as many have suggested me this. I hope it
would be good.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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