The thing that sucks is when you have been coding in one language for a while and switch to something else. Its so embarrassing to type curly braces in your python code, and it doesn't make you feel good when you type 'and' instead of && in your C or Java code either...
I win this one... I put a "While .. Wend" loop in some C# code before (yeah, it's for work)
]]>postlogic wrote:The languages themselves arent really hard. It's using them that's the pain in the ass at times.
I have to agree here - syntax isn't hard to learn. Especially if you already know one programming language. Your brain will morph knowledge you have to conform to a different ruleset - it's similar to looking at cars. Your brain has an idea of what a car looks like, and when you see a truck, your brain is able to manipulate the information you have and say 'hey this is the same thing, but with slight differences'
The real part of 'using' a language has to do with learning the libraries and intricacies of the language itself.
Well said!!
The thing that sucks is when you have been coding in one language for a while and switch to something else. Its so embarrassing to type curly braces in your python code, and it doesn't make you feel good when you type 'and' instead of && in your C or Java code either...
Dusty
]]>The languages themselves arent really hard. It's using them that's the pain in the ass at times.
I have to agree here - syntax isn't hard to learn. Especially if you already know one programming language. Your brain will morph knowledge you have to conform to a different ruleset - it's similar to looking at cars. Your brain has an idea of what a car looks like, and when you see a truck, your brain is able to manipulate the information you have and say 'hey this is the same thing, but with slight differences'
The real part of 'using' a language has to do with learning the libraries and intricacies of the language itself.
]]>I learned python in less than an hour..... taught it to Penguin in what, two days? ;-)
Dusty
A whole hour lol .....
No Python & Ruby are easy to learn ,,,enjoy ;-)
]]>Dusty
]]>python now thats hard work lol
]]>Take the C++ book Thinking In C++. It's perhaps one of the best books I've read to date. Bruce Eckel uses examples like copying and modifiying files and such almost immediately. That's great.
I've been wanting to learn Ruby first, and then playing with RoR, but it's been near impossible, since I've had a hard time following the pickaxe (for you who don't know what it is, it's the most popular ruby book, freely available). I do know the Ruby On Rails book, also by Pragmatic Programmer's, is a very excellent book, but that's kind of beyond the point of getting a grasp of ruby before implementing it for, say, the web.
Ok, enough ranting, heh. THESE WERE ALL MY OPINIONS!
]]>