About programing, a general question

[Bob Marcan]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:04:30 +0530
Parshwa Murdia <b330bkn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Bible:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures_%3D_Programs

BR, Bob