About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Patrick Kobly <patrick at kobly.com> wrote:

 On 12/17/2010 5:10 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>


>  The thing to keep in mind here is what is the purpose of the language
> you're choosing for this step in your journey.  You are clearly not going to
> be writing production software for some time.  You are choosing a language
> that will serve as a canvas for early-stages learning.  At this point, you
> probably want to evaluate your tools in terms of their pedagogic advantages,
> rather than practical advantages for implementing working production
> software.
>


Correct, for only beginners learning.



> IMHO, a first learning language should introduce concepts including:
>
>    - Variables
>    - Typing of variables (strong typing)
>     - Arrays
>    - Data structures
>     - Boolean logic expressions
>    - Flow control and looping (if, then, else ; while ; for,to)
>    - Procedure and / or function calls
>    - Formal parameters vs. actual parameters
>    - Recursion
>    - Equivalence of recursion and iteration
>    - Compilation
>    - Compile-time vs. Run-time errors
>
> A first programming language should avoid concepts like:
>
>    - Pointers (at least in the C conception of them, breaking the typing
>    system)
>    - Dynamic typing
>    - Polymorphism
>    - Inheritance
>
> That in mind, my suggestion for a first language would generally be more
> similar to Pascal or Modula-2 than C, Python, C++, Java,...
>


Oh I see.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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