Uhm, I think he said he's new to programming. I don't know how they think they should teach programming today, but a couple of years back when I started, all I did was algorithms and problem-solving (think: read data from text file, do something with it, output). Only after quite a while I moved to software design, C and C++, and building actual complete software and the likes. In fact I accidently followed the (sort-of) evolution of software as I learned: for many months I didn't knew functions existed. Then the revelation of structures and pointers came along, oh the joy! :)<br>
<br>Same here, "learned" Python in one day.<br><br>I'm writing a server-client program using PyQt now, and I think if I'd have started learning programming with something like that, I would have ended up being some kind of Java-lost-cause-kid or something.<br>
<br>I don't think he gets what programming is all about... maybe he should start perhaps similar to how I did, but at a faster pace.<br><br>--ra<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Tim Stebbing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjstebbing@gmail.com">tjstebbing@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Consider a combination of multi-user screen and a voice chat protocol like teamspeak, this would allow you to be 'tutored' remotel, If you're interested in this sort of thing what are you offering? what areas of programming are you most interested in? web dev? scripting system tasks? desktop GUIs? Do you have a personal project you'd like to work on? (having a concrete task is always a great idea) <br>
<br>-tjs<br><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Timothy J Stebbing<br>
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