From: corey konrad <0011@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T09:32:21+09:00
Subject: Re: begining programmer questions

yeah a friend of mine said that PHP would be a good language to learn as 
a beginner.




Logan Capaldo wrote:
> On May 14, 2006, at 7:33 PM, corey konrad wrote:
> 
>> this stuff is discouraging, lol. Since i started learning to program i
>> feel like i am mentally retarded or something. Is it normal to have  
>> this
>> many problems with understanding simple things when you  learn this
>> stuff, for some people it seems to just come naturally like they were
>> born into it.
>>
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>>
> 
> There's a _big_ hump the first time you learn to program. Once it
> clicks though, a whole bunch of other stuff becomes easier. I don't
> know if ruby is necessarily the best programming language for a
> beginner either, since it was designed by Matz. for Matz. (And I'm
> pretty sure Matz. isn't a beginning programmer). The problem is I
> can't think of a better one. Every language out there has it's own
> quirks that are detrimental to the learning of how to just program,
> for the very first time. I think someone should write a procedural
> language with a simple, forgiving syntax (i.e. whitespace is not
> significant, and as few funny characters as possible), with garbage
> collection and dynamic typing. Kind of a subset of perl with a ruby-
> like syntax. It should also have a very rich runtime introspection
> capabilities, not necessarily for the students, so that you can step
> through code and have the data structures visualized( sort of like
> [1] but they should be shown more like a diagram out of a text book).
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/


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