Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-24 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, prasanna diwadkar pdiwad...@yahoo.com wrote: That was the observation made by professors.I won't say C/c++ will make better programmer than say java/Python But you already said that: I have found those how have programmed in C/C++ are generally better(in

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 24 Jan 2009 5:09:29 pm Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: Learning low-level programming constructs are certainly useful especially in systems programming and writing high performance code. What is puzzling me is the claim that these constructs will make one a better programmer. what is

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-24 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: The 'knowing the rules' vs. 'being proficient' argument is also made in SICP http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html#%_sec_1.2 ... another good read, (Indian version of the dead trees version

[BangPypers] Announcing PyOFC2

2009-01-24 Thread Pradeep Gowda
I've written a python library to generate data files used by the excellent open Flash chart 2. The project page: http://btbytes.github.com/pyofc2/ Click on the links on the left to see the resulting charts. There are a couple of advantages PyOFC2 has over the one distributed with OFC2. 1.

Re: [BangPypers] how to learn programming

2009-01-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar sridhar.ra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: The 'knowing the rules' vs. 'being proficient' argument is also made in SICP