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Actually do something. I talked about writing code more than I wrote code and that was a dumb mistake. Also, if I could do it all over again, I'd make it a po

by mkautzm 13y ago

Actually do something. I talked about writing code more than I wrote code and that was a dumb mistake. Also, if I could do it all over again, I'd make it a point to really work with C/C++. I feel like moving to any other imperative language is pretty easy if you have a firm grasp of that language. I would also not learn Objective-C, but that's more of an opinion than anything.

taspeotis 13y ago
> I would also not learn Objective-C, but that's more of an opinion than anything. wouldYouMindExplainingPlease:whyYouAreNotFondOfObjectiveC:withAnExample:orMaybeTwo:
- mkautzm 13y ago
  My big hang up is that it's not used much outside of the Cocoa environment. Beyond that, I'm a really big fan of putting C in the hands of people who want to learn to program on the grounds that it forces you to develop good habits. You don't get awesome, abstract data structures, inheritance, etc. to help manage your project. You kind of have to develop good habits or else you end up with a mess of a project that is unmanageable after a point. Those skills apply to even modern, high-level languages. They are of course applied a little differently, but it forces you to learn good project management skills.