Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.programming > #2359

Re: Very new programmer

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Very new programmer
Date 2012-10-19 16:44 +0100
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <k5rsg8$4et$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References <MPG.2aea8db2e30bc1cc989680@nntp.aioe.org> <282576538372343494.163409pjb-informatimago.com@news.individual.net>

Show all headers | View raw

Pascal J.  Bourguignon wrote:

> My advice would be to read those two books:
> 
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/dst/www/LispBook/index.html
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
> 
> Later you can learn some specific programming languages, depending on the
> kind of programs you want to write.

Are you really sure that forcing lisp, or one of its dialects, on a newbie, 
without even knowing what he wants to do with, is such a good idea?


Rui Maciel

Back to comp.programming | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Very new programmer Ian German <ianpgerman@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 21:06 -0300
  Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 02:11 +0100
    Re: Very new programmer Uncle Steve <stevet810@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 21:11 -0400
  Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-19 12:48 +0000
    Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 16:44 +0100
      Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-19 16:37 +0000
        Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 19:04 +0100
          Re: Very new programmer pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-10-19 14:38 -0400
          Re: Very new programmer Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-19 21:56 +0100
          Re: Very new programmer Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-10-23 13:20 +0000
            Re: Very new programmer "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-10-23 18:49 +0100
            Re: Very new programmer Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 19:41 +0100
  Re: Very new programmer Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-19 12:12 -0700
  Re: Very new programmer Markus Freund <markus.freund@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de> - 2012-10-19 23:20 +0200
  Re: Very new programmer "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-10-19 17:12 -0500

csiph-web