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Re: StringBuilder Difficulties

Date	2011-06-30 14:17 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: StringBuilder Difficulties
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On 6/30/2011 1:30 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
...
> But I have some sympathy with the desire just to get something
> running:  I spent a number of hours a while back trying to teach
> myself some Scheme and in the process trying make it conform to
> my strongly-typed-languages-trained mindset, and I'd probably
> have done better to get a good introductory book and try to grok
> the no-types(?) mindset.  (Maybe I'll try again at some point.)
>

I've tried several approaches to learning programming languages, and the
one that works best for me is to get an introductory book, and work
through it, reading each chapter and doing the exercises.

In working through the elementary material, I build the mindset,
terminology, and assumptions for the language I'm learning.

Patricia

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    Re: StringBuilder Difficulties Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-06-29 00:48 -0400
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  Re: StringBuilder Difficulties blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 20:17 +0000
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        Re: StringBuilder Difficulties Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-06-30 14:17 -0700
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