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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:50
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:50
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:29:11 -0600, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote: >On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:57:43 -0500, Tom Lake wrote: > >>>>I am very interested in learning programming. However I am having >>>>trouble starting, I need advice as to which language would be the best >>>>for a beginner to start with and where I may find the tools needed to >>>>start.......literature.....compilers...etc. >>>> >>>>Thanks in advance >>>>Ben >> >> BASIC is still a great language for an easy introduction to programming. >> One super version is at: > >Ick... I, unfortunately, learned BASIC as my first language. Don't bother >learning all those things you will have to unlearn. If you start with a >language with a global variable scope, no functions and is built around >using goto you're going to have a hard time making the transition to a >language that thinks all of those things are blaspheme. That must have been a LONG time ago, on a very primitive BASIC. Modern BASICs have functions, subroutines, local variables, global variables, (in between variables), common variables . . . I spent YEARS (well months, anyway) trying to figure out the variable scope rules for PDS. (ms quickbasic 7.10) Not sure that I ever did. <snip> -- ArarghMail702 at [drop the 'http://www.' from ->] http://www.arargh.com BCET Basic Compiler Page: http://www.arargh.com/basic/index.html To reply by email, remove the garbage from the reply address.
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