Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:17:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:17:34 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: StringBuilder Difficulties References: <971fj1Fg1rU1@mid.individual.net> <9744m8FpnhU3@mid.individual.net> In-Reply-To: <9744m8FpnhU3@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1v-dnd5CMOdnepHTnZ2dnUVZ_hmdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.196.78 X-Trace: sv3-LeMeXyEN7oCUyEAo+No9vAzqXFlfBFZEWST7ZLSmwvXnVGs/fayXkJsxqwpiwt1CSHxjdq3+MhrIECA!7N2gQUj4sZ631fG70Se8o76t2JU7VExE+MVqtdJXBQHGzec9cZv654SNFlRXGf2i4PZ4mNEXNGsD!hEK0PSfHuUp8MjSD8TEyP0rHLe9NHFayGx0rCj1M2jrqyg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2103 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5796 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