| From: | Paul C. Brennan |
| Date: | 28 Oct 2000 at 23:15:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Programming on Amiga |
Hello Matthew
On 29-Oct-00, you wrote:
>> If your daughter wants to program in long tearm she should look in to
>> C or Java.
>>
>> But I think what you are realy asking is that she going to be a
>> newbie to programing thing. As such C has high learing curve could
>> make her lose all intrest in programing before she even started. For
>> that reasion I surgest a Basic programing lingo.
>>
>> As such BlitzBasic isn't a bad place to start. It a rather good
>> programing lingo. Easy to understand but giving you that power.
> I will have to agree with that. I learned to program on an Acorn Electron
> (remember those?), and a BBC B using BASIC. I now program in C on my amiga
> (freeware stuff), and at work, COBOL and Assembler (IBM Mainframe).
>
> The important thing is to learn the basics (Sorry about any puns here),
> before going for any real Amiga-specific stuff. For example, start by
> writing the standard "Hello" program, then move on to programs that count
> from 1 to 10, etc. before moving on to anything serious.
>
> If the daughter is interested enough to program for a living, then the
> chances are (sorry, Amiga community) that she won't be doing any software
> for Amigas, so learning about programming is more important than learning
> specific languages.
>
> If you are interested in learning to program from scratch, I cannot
> recommend C, Java, etc. as the important features of those languages
> really are too awkard to understand for a beginner programmer, and will
> discourage any further interest.
>
> COBOL is a pretty good language for the beginner, if you cannot get hold
> of a BASIC incarnation. I believe there is an implementation on Aminet,
> but I don't know what it is like.
Thanks for the info and your time.
All the Best,
Paul C.
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