Wednesday, October 25, 2006

C for Beginners?

I recently responded to someone's blog comment that said that BASIC is not a good language for beginning programmers. He suggested instead that beginners learn C. I responded that C is a fine language for many purposes (like operating system development), but that it contains too many difficulties that are not fundamentally related to learning programming. Here's a cool page that I found using StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com that illustrates my point effectively. ;-)

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/topten.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

C is way to complicated for the novice. Wallace Wang in the beginning programming for dummies book says that the cryptic commands are to complicated for novices. Wang and me prefer BASIC. I just love Liberty for the price, and simplicty.