Re: university studies?

From: Brad Stewart (bradmont@bradmont.net)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 13:13:09 EST

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:24:45AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> One thing I will add, from long experience: If you learned BASIC
> first, then learn Pascal BEFORE you try to learn C or C++ as you'll
> come out a much better programmer than trying to learn C or C++
> directly after BASIC.

This makes me a little bit nervous... I used to program a fair bit in BASIC ((Q|GW)BASIC mostly), and started learning C++ after that. Could you elaborate a bit on the reasons?

Thanks

Brad Stewart
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