On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo <nosp...@gmail.com > wrote:
My first programming experience started with Coco-TRS80 basic. Then I > knew I will love computers. > > But as amazed as I was, I was hungry to learn the guts of programming. > Lucky me, I was introduced to the Norton Pink Shirt Book. Wow. Learning > Pascal, Cobol and Fortran in one year, with 12 years old turned to be a > piece of cake. C would follow. > > The book deals mainly with simple hardware of those ages and a little > bit of 8086 assembler, AFAIR. Knowing all of that, understanding Basic, > C or any programming paradigm turned to be easy for me. > > Then I worked for 15 years. A couple of years ago, on vacation, I read > the "C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, > and made all exercises, just for fun. That's another beautiful book. > > That's my history. I would advise to start from the low level: study a > bit of hardware, to be able to learn C or/and Assembler (low level > programming, maybe you can skip assembler, or just read some code). > After, enjoying high-level language programming (java, informix, perl, > php, python, etc.) will be your prize. > I guess, yes, C would be good but do you agree that it is good over Python (for the beginners like me, having known the fact that programing principles are same)? (If anyone has a pdf copy of the Pink-Shirt Book, I would thank if > mailed, my original is 5000 miles away :) > > Cheers! > I am first time hearing this book name. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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