About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

 I agree. The important part of computer programming (and I have been a
> programmer for 45 years) is that you understand the basic concepts as
> well as data structures initially.



Okay. Really cool to know that you are programmer for 45 years! Such a long
period!



> A language like C can get you in trouble very fast. IMHO, Pascal was a
> decent language to learn some of
> these concepts. IMHO, Python is an excellent first language in that it
> behaves as a regular computer language, and also supports object
> orientation.



Yes, Python is good.



> But, you need to learn what a variable is, what  integers,
> floats, characters, and strings are. These are the basics, but if you do
> not understand how integers work using twos complement arithmetic, your
> programs might fail and you may not know why.



Okay



> Additionally, you need to know the basic structures, like stacks (where in
> C and C++ your
> automatic variables reside) and arrays. I personally don't like Perl as
> a language to create applications, but I find it very useful for
> scripting. As Parshwa intimates, pointers is an advanced topic and
> requires a lot of understanding, and is not a good concept to start on.
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman
>


Yes, because I saw the book and Pointers was mentioned at the end of the
book before which it covers a lot of, a lot of useful stuff, which takes
time to be grasped!


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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