Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: hash map Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:01:10 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <9a86c6fb-ae40-4acd-902f-afff0ab60fd6@googlegroups.com> <208075f0-0022-4996-b2b7-a3b90f6c85a6@googlegroups.com> <25389b66-b30f-4076-8f8e-4bfeb91dbc6f@googlegroups.com> <8a53e56c-5877-4c31-976f-5802f926f44a@googlegroups.com> <1bcffbc0-a529-4185-87f2-8e1d66bf319d@googlegroups.com> <92da5574-f874-49a4-9a70-492a154f166e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36488 On 4/17/2017 9:20 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:22:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 4/17/2017 7:14 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> I know this is off-topic for this newsgroup, but if I knew any book >>> that covered programming in Java as well as "K&R C ed. 2" covers C I'd >>> have recommended that. >> >> If one was to learn a simpler procedural language before going for a >> more complex object oriented language, then I would suggest Pascal not >> C. > > Fair enough, but can you recommend any readily obtainable Pascal book > that's as good as either edition of the K&R C book? Some of the O'Reilly > books come close but that's about it. Been some years since I was into Pascal intro books. Probably some years since there has really been a market for Pascal intro books. So I don't know what books are available. I just believe that Pascal is an excellent language for learning basic control structures, simple data structure and algorithms. Arne