Re: Need C++ tutor for 10th grade student

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 I also wouldn't start off programing with c++ or even java for that matter. 
Starting off on a OO model is just painful to say the least. Fortran or c 
just to get use to programing is quite good. K&R for c is the best book 
ever, to the point where it was a college text book for me and fortran has 
been around for ever. Either that or start off with something really simple, 
like scheme. Scheme is an amaising language to learn basic great programing 
concept and there are some wonderful books on it. C++ is simply overkill and 
is REALLY complicated. Once you start getting into multiple inheritance and 
virtual methods you want to hurt someone. It also doesn't help that there 
isn't one single good book on it, and a c++ tutor will be quite hard to find 
mostly because most HS's if they have a cs program will do java instead. 
Also college doesn't really teach c++ a lot of the time and the places where 
it is found. If someone is really interested in programing, scheme or c or 
fortran with a migration to python I think is the right path. Java is "easy" 
sorta, but again, massive overkill for a teaching language. 
This is of course IMHO. ~Ben 


On Feb 13, 2008 4:32 PM, Mark J. Dulcey <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> > It's great that the kid wants to learn, but s/he's probably better off 
> > financially if they save their money and buy something like Learning 
> > Perl (or that K&amp;R book about C I have yet to read.) 
> > 
> > I guess having guru's around is very important though. That's how I 
> > learned good practices. (You should compare some code I've written to 
> > my peer's, who doesn't spend time in IRC/Mailing lists.) 
> 
> They're only talking about 3 hours of tutoring a month. So the kid is 
> mostly going to be self-taught; with that little tutoring time, the 
> tutor's role is going to be as mentor and goad, not teacher. The parents 
> may know enough about their child to know the need for a bit of 
> leadership. 
> 
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