Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms.

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 26-Apr-17 23:08, Hisham wrote:
> I don't dispute that, but as someone who started programming with
> BASIC myself (on the Apple II, no less!) I can attest that this
> citation has at least some grain of truth. 

Of course, but that could be generalized to most (if not all) 
programming languages: a single model is mind-constraining ("To the man 
who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a 
nail").

> To this day I think very
> concretely — but take into consideration that I learned that x=2 is a
> stateful variable assignment_years_  before I learned that x=2 is a
> mathematical equation (yes, I learned programming before elementary
> school algebra).

I first encountered BASIC on an Olivetti P6060; if I remember correctly, 
it used the (then) mandatory LET for assignments.
I am still quite bad in advanced math and math notation, but in my case 
it is definitely not BASIC's fault :-)

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  Enrico