Re: (no subject)
Re: (no subject)
- Subject: Re: (no subject)
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:45:29 -0700
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 03:30 PM, Ben Mackin wrote:
Ok, I am not exactly sure if this is te best place to put this, but here
goes.
At my school, they are currently begining the transition from C++ to
teaching Java in the computer science department. I came in right at the
transition point, and was given a choice of which I wanted to pursue. I
choose C++. In the future (possible after my schooling), I would love to
learn Objective-C/Cocoa (I have heard it makes coding easier).
You heard right!
Did I make a wrong choice? Should I have gone with Java instead? I
mainly choose C++ because I figured that more applications are written
in C++ over Java. Was that a poor assumption? I am not totallt
interested into going into a dot com (and doing webbased applications),
more mainstram applications/games (be it console or pc/mac titles).
Ben,
Learn all the languages you can. C++ causes some brain damage, but so
does Java. If I were in your shoes, I'd make it a point to get my hands
on a few languages that were RADICALLY different from what I'd already
studied. Try LISP, Forth, Python, Perl, and one or two assemblers. Get
your feet wet with a few different ways of doing things.
-jcr
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.