From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172704933 sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com x-nntp-posting-host: smosha references: <4u7fol$26s@zeus.orl.mmc.com> organization: MESC mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4u7fol$26s@zeus.orl.mmc.com>, rgilbert@unconfigured.xvnews.domain says... > >Why can't we learn both at the same time? > >When it came to learning computer science I think I tended to learn >both at the same time. I took basic EE courses and learned about >operating transistors in saturation, how to build flip-flop circuits, >and how to implement logic using these circuits, and finally how to >design a computer architecture using these circuits (including micro- >code design). At the same time I was learning PL/I programming, how >to write bubble sorts, learning about the merits of structured >programming, top-down design methods, various data structures, data >base design, discrete mathmatics, ect. This was overlapped and >followed with learning assembly, state machine theory, Turing machines, >general compiler (language) theory, and so forth. Somewhere in my >second senior year it all started to come together and make sense, >not necessarily with a sudden turning on of the light of understanding, >but a gradual turning up of the dimmer switch. > That must have been one hell of a lecture. By *same time* I meant SAME TIME. Some of your above mentioned topics must have been learned, and mastered, before the others. Care to comment on what you mean by second senior year?