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What language to learn?

Mickygor · 2004-01-03T13:57:17

Out of all the languages that are used, which should I learn? I don''t particularly want to learn C++ as everyone seems to choose it and I want to be different, but if you all insist then I guess I will learn it. And also, once I have chosen a language, will anyone give me some 1 to 1 lessons to get me started please?

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Started by Mickygor December 15, 2003 02:51 PM

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teamonkey

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December 22, 2003 06:14 PM

quote:Original post by Raghar
Web design isn''t programming. I don''t know why so many people think they background in web design could help them.

Depends if the web design includes ASP, Perl, PHP, JSP, Python, &#106avascript, Actionscript or SQL really, doesn''t it? At least some of these are useful languages. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> <br><br>[teamonkey]

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daerid

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December 22, 2003 07:09 PM

Could somebody please clarify the difference between "imperative" and "functional"?

Basically a definition of each term and how they contrast.

Thanks

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Mickygor

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January 03, 2004 08:19 AM

quote:Original post by Raghar

Web design isn''t programming. I don''t know why so many people think they background in web design could help them.

[edited by - Raghar on December 22, 2003 6:39:27 PM]

Hence why I said I deoubt it would help. And web design is programming unless, like my friends, you use WYSIWYG.

Current Programming Language that I''m learning/using: NONECurrent programming project: NONE

Captian Goatse

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January 03, 2004 08:24 AM

Lol wtf these 3rd generation n00bs lol rolf. Go ADA. Only way to be sure you are the best.

Seriously. Go something that is platform intependent. My only recommendation.

Scourage

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January 03, 2004 09:21 AM

Be a man and learn Ada.

no seriously...The language isn''t as important as the concepts. Learn how to design a procedural program and an object oriented program (design, not code) and the language will be insignificant. I recommend algorithm/design theory over languages. Once you know those, the language is just a way to express your design to the computer and is trivial at that point.

Cheers,

Bob

PS. I wasn''t trying to offend any Ada programmers, it''s a great language.

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sjelkjd

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January 03, 2004 01:57 PM

quote:Original post by daerid
Could somebody please clarify the difference between "imperative" and "functional"?

Basically a definition of each term and how they contrast.

Thanks

"Doomed to crumble, unless we grow, and strengthen our communication" - Maynard James Keenan, Tool

imperative -> use assignment statements
functional -> functions are first class objects and don''t have side effects

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