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Article #699Re: beginner
From: Ivan Marsh
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:57
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:57
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:50:16 -0600, ArarghMail702NOSPAM wrote: > 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. Indeed it was (Apple IIe). > Modern BASICs have functions, subroutines, local variables, global > variables, (in between variables), common variables . . . I had no idea BASIC had evolved... or that anyone had bothered to make it evolve. > 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. Now that I've spent a considerable amount of time with C++ I wish it had been the first language I worked with.
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