Re: Help i'm new

[Bertrand Mansion <golgote@...>]

Le 8 mai 08 à 14:30, Paul Smith a écrit :
> Jim White wrote:
> > Thank you all for looking into this matter. As an update I have so  
> > far completed the first half of the tutorial in python and am quite  
> > pleased with this language. My frustration level is considerably  
> > lower now that I don't spend endless amounts of time going over  
> > documentation trying to gleam some knowledge that will allow me to  
> > begin learning how to program. It may have been a bit ambitious for  
> > me to expect this language to be a good starting point. My  
> > frustration voiced in my emails and post reflect a month of  
> > absolutely no progress. Right or wrong it took any pleasure out of  
> > what I considered an en devour well worth undertaking. I still see  
> > it as such. I just chose poorly which road to travel.
> Lua isn't really meant to be a 'teaching' language. It's designed  
> primarily as a programming for programmers to put into their own  
> applications. So, usually all that a non-programmer would see would  
> be an already installed and running application to do something  
> else, with a scripting facility using Lua - such as you saw in your  
> keyboard application IIRC.

I don't agree. I think Lua would be a great language to learn  
programming because it's clean and well thought and it's easy to learn  
its basics. Its focus is IMO larger than just being embedded. I am  
sure it could be taught in schools with great success.



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