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Subject:Learning Programming short From:Peter Jones <Holtec -at- COMITY -dot- DEMON -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:41:49 +0100
In article <m10rOQo-000BM2C -at- mail -dot- GTS -dot- ORG>, Tim Altom
<taltom -at- SIMPLYWRITTEN -dot- COM> writes
>I was sent a message by a member of this list, asking how to acquire the
>programming skills I so loudly recommended
...
<snip Tim's excellent ideas>
Also try to find "Programming from First Principles" by Richard Bornat
ISBN 0-13-729104-3 (if it is still in print). This will guide you, with
a lot of practical exercises, through how to write programs rather than
how to code C, C++, PERL, Smalltalk, Algol, Cobol, Ada, Prologue, LISP,
BASIC, VBA, Fortran,...
You will then have an idea of what the programmers are trying to do
regardless of the odd way they write it down.
