Re: StringBuilder Difficulties
On 6/30/2011 5:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
On 6/30/2011 1:30 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
...
But I have some sympathy with the desire just to get something
running: I spent a number of hours a while back trying to teach
myself some Scheme and in the process trying make it conform to
my strongly-typed-languages-trained mindset, and I'd probably
have done better to get a good introductory book and try to grok
the no-types(?) mindset. (Maybe I'll try again at some point.)
I've tried several approaches to learning programming languages, and the
one that works best for me is to get an introductory book, and work
through it, reading each chapter and doing the exercises.
To this I'd add (and perhaps this is reflective only of my
own modes of learning): Get hold of some samples of good code in
the language (or "believed to be good," since the learner is in
a poor position to judge), and read the code. With the tutorials
and reference works at one's elbow, of course. "Why didn't he need
to grab a lock here?" "Oh, *that's* how you handle file-not-found!"
And so on, and so on.
I still recall learning SNOBOL years and years ago by studying
the SNOBOL source of the SNOBOL compiler while frantically flipping
pages in the SNOBOL book. My grasp of the language SNOBOLed.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid