On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John Haxby <john.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, no, C is dead easy to start but it gets really difficult really > quickly. Consider these for a beginner: > > * Write the declaration of signal(3) -- it takes two parameters, an > integer and a pointer to a function that takes an integer paramater and > returns void. Explain why the parentheses are needed. > > * Why does "a + b == 0" work the way you expect but "a & b == 0" does not? > Are you sure it doesn't? > > * What is the difference between "const char *s" and "char * const s"? > > * What is the difference between "char *s" and "char s[]"? > Absolutely no idea dude. > Admitedly the very first of these is not likely to come up as a beginner, > but the other three will, and they'll bite you good and hard. > > C is not a simple language, it has a lot of subtlety and it is incredibly > expressive, but I would not use it as the beginning language for someone who > wants to learn to program. I'd start with a language that was designed > carefully. There aren't any Algol68 compilers any more :-) but I'd choose > python or java to learn to program. Once you know what you want to do then > you can go for something else, something applicable to what you want to do. > When you know the basics those questions about C are still difficult, but > at least you're not trying to understand them at the same time as knowing > what happens to a parameter when you pass it to a function or, for that > matter, what a function is. > > jch > For Python I am agreeing with you as many have suggested me this. I hope it would be good. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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