On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:02 AM, tedd <t...@sperling.com> wrote: > Hi gang: > > At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they > don't want to settle on a specific language. > > My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the > general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need to see how concepts are > applied to understand how they work -- thus I think a specific language is > required > > I lean toward C++ because I wrote in it for a few years AND C++ appears to > be the most common, widespread, and popular OOP language. > > However, while I don't know PHP OOP, I am open to considering it because of > the proliferation of web based applications. My personal opinion is that's > where all programming is headed anyway, but that's just my opinion. > > With that said, what's the differences and advantages/disadvantages between > C++ and PHP OOP? > > Cheers, > > tedd > > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
In my personal opinion, C++ would probably be the best language to teach OOP concepts in. That or Python. -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com Help kick start VOOM (Very Open Object Model) for a library of PHP classes. http://www.voom.me | IRC EFNet #voom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
