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Re: Recommendations urgently required.

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From: Stephen J. Tremblett
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 06:46
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How about "Oh My! Modula 2!" by Doug Cooper?  It was the text for my
first programming course, and I found it to be EXCELLENT.
It comes packaged with Stony Brook QuickMod and a manual.


Steve T.

Aquarius (S.I.Langridge@durham.ac.uk) wrote:
: hwpc16@ wrote:
: : I am currently studying TopSpeed Modula-2 for my degree in Cybernetics 
: : and I am getting nowhere fast. I am a complete novice when it comes to
: : programming and do not know any languages what so ever. Does anybody 
: : know of a book that could teach me Modula-2 with out assuming any 
: : previous programming knowledge that proceeds in nice easy to follow steps
: : that even a dummy like me could understand.

: Try "Programming in TopSpeed Modula2" by Barry Cornelius. I plug this for 
: two reasons, first because I reckon it's quite a reasonable book, and 
: secondly because Barry is the head of my uni IT Service, and hopefully if 
: enough people buy his book he will get rich and retire :)

: Aquarius

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