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[Alan Garrison]

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> A few bits of advice, as a programmer, to others interested in
> becoming better programmers:

My addendums (also being a programmer, but probably a much 
suckier one than Ben):

*  Avoid all languages that start with "Visual".
*  Avoid submitting your learning of a language to the whims 
of a huge, bloated, GUI IDE. 
*  Find fun things to do with a language (along with useful).  
If not, you may become quickly bored with it (and possibly 
programming in general).

Ben suggested Knuth:  Read Knuth but only if you have a 
pretty solid math background.  I picked up his first book 
a while ago, and my brain is still sore from trying some of 
the material (Holy fsck I have forgotten a lot of math 
since school!!!  I'm getting old...)

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Alan Garrison  ___ agarris@voyager.net
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