Re: Start using Cocoa
Re: Start using Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Start using Cocoa
- From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:20:23 +0100
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 05:36 pm, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 03:33 , Jeremy Dronfield wrote:
Putting yourself in a real-life environment is the best way to learn a
human language, and the same is true of a programming language
I strongly disagree, but of course, anybody is free to do as he
prefers. In my opinion, to start programming before learning at the
very least basics of the programming language is a sure way to need ten
or more times the effort than if you learnt the basics first and try to
use it afterwards.
Maybe, if you're doing a structured Computer Science course, but
probably not if you're an autodidact. On a teach-yourself basis, who is
likely to end up speaking better English - the person who spends a year
sitting at a desk with an English dictionary and grammar, or the person
who puts them in a suitcase and spends the year living in London?
Neither of them are likely to speak it as well as the person who does a
DEGREE in English AND spends time in London, but sometimes proper
learning isn't an option.
And as for learning the basics before trying to use them, how else do
you learn the basics other than by doing basic exercises? There's a
difference between *learning*, which is a relatively quick and natural
human process, and *memorising* which is much more time-consuming and
usually painful.
-Jeremy
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