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Assembly is also good and I spent a semester teaching it to 2nd semester students. I think C++ is a better choice because it exposes folks to low level programm
by frozenport 13y ago
Assembly is also good and I spent a semester teaching it to 2nd semester students. I think C++ is a better choice because it exposes folks to low level programming in a more controlled fashion.
For many people python is their first language.
- ibotty 13y agobut the '++'-part does not help in understanding the machine, does it? (i like many new-in-c++11 constructs so don't get me wrong. but they further abstract from the machine.)
- frozenport 13y agoKnowing OOP is also useful, and knowing how OOP behaves on a machine is also useful (vtables). I can't recommend Scheme or Lisp because it will leave students disconnected from the real-world software stack.
- ibotty 13y agowell. of course knowing oop is useful. but why the modula flavor and not the smalltalk flavor? vtables cannot be used with message-passing object orientation. shouldn't students learn lambda-calculus? shouldn't you teach a functional programming language then? or even a logic programming language? "the real-world software stack" is not the most important thing in the world.