On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:27 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:
> Benoit wrote:
>> I've been teaching myself the python language over the past few months
>> using Mark Lutz' Learning Python, 3ed. Python is also the first
>> programming language I've ever taken up. I find the language easy to
>> learn and rather productive in relation to the introductory course on C
>> ++ I'd begun in January for fun @ school (we're practicing dynamic
>> arrays using pointers... kill me now).
>
> Get a better teacher, if you can. Please do me a personal favor: Don't
> hold the crappy course against C++. For the record, you should never
> have to manage dynamically allocated arrays manually, nor store pointers
> to them. Try the std::vector template, and post in comp.lang.c++ if
> have any trouble.
Hey a flame bait. I'll bite. This a bit of an overreaction unless you
know what the course was about. If the goal is to learn about the
computer and that basically everything is a number in the end, then C is a
good choice. More portable than assembler but nearly as close to the
metal.
To the OP: If you try C++, don't hold that crappy language against C#, D,
or Java. ;-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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