Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!zeus!s64421 From: s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Teaching C as first programming language Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 12:59:30 GMT References: <44506@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Jun19.172436.14898@itnsg1.cineca.it> <7363@maize.UUCP> <1739@seq.uncwil.edu> Distribution: world,comp Lines: 19 cosper@seq.uncwil.edu (Kit Cosper) writes: > I just go through the first semester of C and had a blast. > We used Kochan's _Programming in C_, which I found to be > a most friendly text for the neophyte programmer. I also >.... > At this university C is now "the" intro language. I had BASIC > years ago (~10) and had no problems with taking C and FORTRAN > concurrently. Actually, I found C easier than FORTRAN. Then you're not a neophyte programmer, are you? When you learn you very first language, you master all sorts of _concepts_ which you never need learn again. -- Regards, Ron House. (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au) (By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)