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: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170107204 sender: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu references: organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Add an extra minute or 2 for unexpected problems. :-) Besides, I never > claimed that you will become an expert in the language. I said "a > working knowledge". I learned C during a lecture. The prof let us do programs in either Pascal or C, so during the lecture I would occasionally ask my friend for the equivalents of certain constructs. Then after class I sat down and wrote my assignment in C, then alternated each assignment between C and Pascal after that. The knowledge I was lacking was in the details, stuff like printf specifications. Certainly no abstract programming details were missing (like what's a pointer, and how to do recursion, etc, although it was odd losing out on the modularization I was used to). Ok, it wasn't 6 minutes, but I didn't have a book or summary sheet to go on, only whispers. When I actually got around to reading K&R, much of it was old hat. -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu O- "Particle Man, Particle Man, doing the things a particle can"