Re: Some exciting new trends in concurrency and software design

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 6/22/2011 1:39 AM, Oliver Kleinke wrote:

>
> Talking to my class mates at university (mostly first to fourth term
> students, most of them had had no programming experience) I rather get
> the impression that OOP involves abstract constructs that are not
> 'compact' for a beginner. FP wouldn't do any better. IMO the
> best approach would be to first begin with simple structured
> programming and then go on with programming by extension,
> modularization, etc. From my limited experience I tell Java, C/C++ and
> the like are not a good choice for an introductory programming
> language and are meant to fail. But all that is nothing really new..
> (There were some papers on that topic ~15 years ago I think.)

I am happy that my first language at school was Pascal, and my
programming books bibles for years were

"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" by Wirth.
Data Structures and Algorithms  by Aho and Ullman
Fundamentals of data structures in Pascal by Horowitz and Sahni

Those were the good old days :)

--Nasser