Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > 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. ;-)
He was talking about C++, not C. Jeff has quite a good point; teaching C++ as C is not terribly useful. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Wyrd has swept all my kin / all the brave chiefs away! / Now I must follow them! -- Beowulf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
