• Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> Jun 13 2007

Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:

Sean Kelly Wrote:

 Daniel Keep wrote:
 
 Sean Kelly wrote:
 BLS wrote:
 Walter said : "D is not a language made for beginners"  and further :
 "They (the nubes) should start with Java, VB or someting similar."

 I disagree. You can learn Programming using D. You can teach yourself
 advanced programming technics without having a too steep learing curve
 and  without having too much trouble in learning exotic language
 constructs.


 could have been used for both classes... certainly for the second, at
 least.

 Sean


 I'd have to say that D makes a good *second* language, but not so much a
 good first language.  Something like Python definitely makes a better
 first language since it allows people to focus on learning how to solve
 problems.  I personally think it's more important to get them used to
 problem-solving than "now, do I need a 32-bit or 64-bit int for this?
 Should I use a struct or a class?"
 
 But then, maybe that's just me :)


 I think it depends on how an individual learns (though it's difficult to 
 build a curriculum to account for that).  Some people have difficulty 
 focusing on higher level issues until they know how the underpinnings 
 work.  Others are the opposite.  My wife did best learning architecture, 
 then assembler, and so on.
 
 
 Sean



Yeah, I went:
HTML
JavaScript
C
x86 Assembler <-- this is when it clicked
C++
CSS
Pascal
Java
XML
C#
D
...

After x86 assembler <-> html I was able to understand the efforts to obfuscate
complexity.  I was also able to understand where we had failed in this task.

Programming = new Exercise( in caching && in obfuscating complexity);