Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 12:55:14 07/31/03
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On July 31, 2003 at 09:44:02, Anthony Cozzie wrote: <snip> >>When I learned to swim, my parents didn't just throw me in the pool and say, >>okay, start swimming... I would have drowned. You have to take a gradual >>approach to learning. The initial classes could be taught in Java, and then, >>once a good base is established, other languages could be taught/used. Would you >>rather learn GUI programming in Java or MFC? >> >>Matt > >QT for linux, of course. Quite an excellent toolkit. absolutely - even for w32. Very stringent. If i compare the signal/slot concept with mfc's "typesave" Message Map macros... I currently switch from MSXMLDom to QDom classes, suddenly it becomes readable. >And teaching beginners >Java is pure sillyness. The classes will always focus on things like >polymorphism and oh, isn't it great we can do *this* complicated language >feature. And don't derive cat and dog from animal ;-) It depends, you can teach procedural things first, algorithms and data structures. Control flow etc. Why not Pascal or Delphi? >IMHO, everyone should learn assembly first and C second. After that, >its your choice, but at least you understand how your machine works. Of course, >this is the view of a hardware guy <shrug>. I found pure machine language best "didactical" way, entered with some binary or hex and command keys. Single stepping through some 8080 code, inspecting registers, ip and others. > >anthony > >P.S. my favorite language is ML, but Zappa is in a mixture of C, C++, and >assembly. never heard about ML, can you give me a glue? Cheers, Gerd
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