On 20-Jan-07, at 10:31 AM, Philip Tellis wrote:
I don't agree on any of the programming book recommendations. All
books on programming languages are filled with the author's own
biases and in some cases, lack of proper research. K&R may be good
for C, but it's not something you should start with.
I'd recommend that people start learning a language without the aid
of a book, but by reading other people's code and using grep and
the man page for any function that they don't understand. Start by
reading simple programs, and modifying them to suit your own needs.
we have had this discussion on this list a couple of years back.
Different people learn in different ways. Some want to be taught,
others hate being taught. Some want to read up everything before
starting. Others never read anything - they just dive in. Each to his
own. The only thing i can say for sure - you will never improve
unless you are constantly reading and re-reading the manual. Another
great way of learning is to teach someone else ...
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