On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 at 14:37 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Hans Fugal wrote: > > Tell that to my CS 142 instructor. I knew a hint of C++ and good ol' > > GW-BASIC, so I breezed through the class, but it was very obviously > > geared at never-before-programmers and honestly I wasn't too far ahead > > of that pack either. If by "know how to program" you mean "has had some > > minimal exposure to thinking like a computer" then I may agree, but by > > no means do you have to have any real, useful experience in programming. > > At least, not in 1997 and 1999. > > CS 142 for me as object-oriented programming, in Pascal. Except they > didn't really teach Pascal per se. They just expected us to pick it up. > We did learn about object-oriented concepts, though.
Same here. I'd never even heard of Pascal. *shrug* They taught you how to program and the book told you the details of pascal. It's still my preferred way to learn any language. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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