From kde-devel  Sat Jul 19 07:11:33 2003
From: Chris Lee <clee () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:11:33 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: new KDE Development book
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Holy crap.

You're teaching your kid C++ before you teach him English?

No _wonder_ you Germans get so much coding done. :)

- -clee

On Friday 18 July 2003 11:58, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2003 00:56, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > On Friday 18 July 2003 20:02, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > Exactly :-) As written earlier, I want to explain/teach C++
> > > programming with Qt/KDE, so C++ is explained directly with what one
> > > needs - even if you have no programming knowledge about C++ at all.
> > > It's all about practical programming with background explanation.
> >
> > I honestly don't think that can work. C++, even coated with Qt, is not
> > suitable as a first language.
>
> IM(h)O: It is.
>
> Ask my son who just started learning C++ as his first language, even
> before starting english.
>
> C++ is OK for beginners if you start with the basics and try to make the
> learning curve less steep - e.g. by using a step-to-step approach in
> your main sample program that is enhanced in every chapter, while having
> tiny little exercise proggies in each chapter that show one single
> element of the language.
>
> So the user would have two areas of pratcise (and of success):
>
> a) the ever growing main sample
>
> b) the small mini proggies that show clearly one aspect each.
>
>
> Karl-Heinz
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