I'm sure they'll mourn the loss of all five of you Linux gamers.
And all the tens of dollars you bring with you.
you know, there were once couple of guys who had nothing to do. So they developped a light machineoriented programming language. The idea was that it would be easy to port it on different architectures. They needed it for their new OS. Imagine only if they hadn't bothered at that time;-) as I am quite sure there was not really that big a market for C and UNIX back there.
I'm 20 right now and I study computer science at a n university.
About ten years ago I started being interested in programming. My dad thought it was great(he's and engenieer and no programmer, but still) so he asked some folks for advice and I ended with a huge book about visual basic 6.0. It was new, it was easy, it was trendy... and I hated it. So I returned to playing starcraft/diablo/whatever. A couple of years later it just happened to pass that I got my hands on a book about C by H.Schildt and it was love from first sight if you know what I mean.. Now I'm pretty much aware that I've inherited some pretty bad habbits from his books, but I don't care that much about it, I'm trying to improve every day as it is:)
So my advice is - don't make any choices for your kid. Show him as much as you can and let him decide. He might love Python, and he might not. He might love graphics, and yet again - he might not.
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I'm sure they'll mourn the loss of all five of you Linux gamers.
And all the tens of dollars you bring with you.
you know, there were once couple of guys who had nothing to do. So they developped a light machineoriented programming language. The idea was that it would be easy to port it on different architectures. They needed it for their new OS. Imagine only if they hadn't bothered at that time ;-) as I am quite sure there was not really that big a market for C and UNIX back there.
I'm 20 right now and I study computer science at a n university. About ten years ago I started being interested in programming. My dad thought it was great(he's and engenieer and no programmer, but still) so he asked some folks for advice and I ended with a huge book about visual basic 6.0. It was new, it was easy, it was trendy... and I hated it. So I returned to playing starcraft/diablo/whatever. A couple of years later it just happened to pass that I got my hands on a book about C by H.Schildt and it was love from first sight if you know what I mean.. Now I'm pretty much aware that I've inherited some pretty bad habbits from his books, but I don't care that much about it, I'm trying to improve every day as it is :)
So my advice is - don't make any choices for your kid. Show him as much as you can and let him decide. He might love Python, and he might not. He might love graphics, and yet again - he might not.