Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:27 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote: > >> Benoit wrote: >>> I've been teaching myself the python language over the past few months >>> using Mark Lutz' Learning Python, 3ed. Python is also the first >>> programming language I've ever taken up. I find the language easy to >>> learn and rather productive in relation to the introductory course on C >>> ++ I'd begun in January for fun @ school (we're practicing dynamic >>> arrays using pointers... kill me now). >> Get a better teacher, if you can. Please do me a personal favor: Don't >> hold the crappy course against C++. For the record, you should never >> have to manage dynamically allocated arrays manually, nor store pointers >> to them. Try the std::vector template, and post in comp.lang.c++ if >> have any trouble. > > Hey a flame bait. I'll bite.
Excuse me? Somebody posts about an introductory course on C++ covering "dynamic arrays using pointers" and literally says "kill me now," and I'm the flamer for asking him not to hold the language responsible for the bad course? > This a bit of an overreaction unless you > know what the course was about. It's supposed to be about C++, according to the OP. > If the goal is to learn about the > computer and that basically everything is a number in the end, then C is a > good choice. More portable than assembler but nearly as close to the > metal. And a better choice than C++ would be. > To the OP: If you try C++, don't hold that crappy language against C#, D, > or Java. ;-) What's the relevance of C#, D, or Java to the OP's post? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
