Pascal J. Bourguignon a écrit :
BGB <[email protected]> writes:
dunno, I learned originally partly by hacking on pre-existing
codebases, and by cobbling things together and seeing what all did and
did not work (and was later partly followed by looking at code and
writing functionally similar mock-ups, ...).
some years later, I started writing a lot more of my own code, which
largely displaced the use of cobbled-together code.
from what I have seen in code written by others, this sort of cobbling
seems to be a fairly common development process for newbies.
I learn programming languages basically by reading the reference, and by
exploring the construction of programs from the language rules.
When I started learning programming on my TI82 palmtop in high school, I
started by copying programs verbatim. Then, I gradually started to do
more and more from scratch. Like BGB.
But when I learn a new language now, I do read the reference (if any),
and construct programs from the language rules. Like Pascal.
Maybe there's two kinds of beginners: beginners in programming itself,
and beginners in a programming language.
Loup.
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