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Learning a first programming language.
which one should i choose?
Replies: 17Last Post Nov. 16, 2007 5:43pm by Blue Baby
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Quote: from allsmiles at 10:01 am on Nov. 15, 2007

It depends on the person really, helloworld. Learning a procedural language first really hindered my understanding and use of OO programming. As in, I still can't get my head around it.

But what makes you think skipping directly to OO would make things easier? Then you'd still have to understand the basic syntax, function/method calls, pointers, program flow, etc, etc, on top of learning OO concepts. Object oriented design patterns are really just a superset of procedural programming anyway. You can design OO code in plain C, too.


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I'll never know, and I guess no one ever will. It's just a gut feeling.

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Quote: from helloworld at 1:42 pm on Nov. 15, 2007

But what makes you think skipping directly to OO would make things easier? Then you'd still have to understand the basic syntax, function/method calls, pointers, program flow, etc, etc, on top of learning OO concepts. Object oriented design patterns are really just a superset of procedural programming anyway. You can design OO code in plain C, too.


I agree.

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