About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo <nospaze at gmail.com
> wrote:

My first programming experience started with Coco-TRS80 basic. Then I
> knew I will love computers.
>
> But as amazed as I was, I was hungry to learn the guts of programming.
> Lucky me, I was introduced to the Norton Pink Shirt Book. Wow. Learning
> Pascal, Cobol and Fortran in one year, with 12 years old turned to be a
> piece of cake. C would follow.
>
> The book deals mainly with simple hardware of those ages and a little
> bit of 8086 assembler, AFAIR. Knowing all of that, understanding Basic,
> C or any programming paradigm turned to be easy for me.
>
> Then I worked for 15 years. A couple of years ago, on vacation, I read
> the "C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie,
> and made all exercises, just for fun. That's another beautiful book.
>
> That's my history. I would advise to start from the low level: study a
> bit of hardware, to be able to learn C or/and Assembler (low level
> programming, maybe you can skip assembler, or just read some code).
> After, enjoying high-level language programming (java, informix, perl,
> php, python, etc.) will be your prize.
>


I guess, yes, C would be good but do you agree that it is good over Python
(for the beginners like me, having known the fact that programing principles
are same)?


(If anyone has a pdf copy of the Pink-Shirt Book, I would thank if
> mailed, my original is 5000 miles away :)
>
> Cheers!
>


I am first time hearing this book name.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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