in reply to programming language

That's a rather hard question to answer without a little more knowledge about the student's particular goals. Is the student in some other discipline with a desire to know enough about programming? Is he desirous to be a "programmer"? Is he just trying to expand the breadth of his knowledge and has chosen this as a specific way of doing so? Do you mean someone who already knows some computer programming and wants to pick up a different language? All of these may have different answers.

That said, here's a link to a book/course designed for teaching the general student (not just the computer scientist or programmer) how to program (or perhaps I should say, how to design programs).

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Re: Re: programming language
by tretin (Friar) on Dec 19, 2001 at 09:07 UTC
    Learning Perl by Randall Shwartz & Tom Phoenix. Not to sound like I'm trying to sell you something (although merlyn might like that); this book is the only reason I remotely understand the language of Perl, that is, only if you're trying to learn Perl :).
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      Actually, we really don't mind if you buy things to support the Monastery (or contribute directly). In fact, we strongly encourage it.

      Take, for example: Learning Perl, 3rd Ed. If you buy it through the link, the Monastery gets a tiny kickback via fatbrain's affiliate program.

      Keep the candles burning...

      --f

      P.S. That link was brought to you by your friendly Site FAQ.

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      Whilst I agree that Learning Perl is a great book (hey, I've bought all three editions), it doesn't attempt to teach you programming. It assumes that you already know how to program. As someone else has already pointed out, Elements of Programming with Perl is much better suited for this.

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