Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19980909145911.33e78d5a@mail.geocities.com> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:59:11 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com From: John Meyer Subject: RE: Teaching a child to program in C In-Reply-To: <000901bddc0c$a7dc68c0$894b08c3@arthur> References: <35F602EB DOT 5228464C AT mindspring DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk At 05:12 PM 9/9/98 +0100, you wrote: >> Buy a ' x For Dummies' book like Qbasic Programming for Dummies, C for >> Dummies, et cetera, they are written in a form a baby could understand >> (and that's probably not far beyond the truth :-). Sorry, I've seen too many C and C++ for Dummies books to seriously recommend those to anybody. For instance, C for Dummies doesn't even get to pointers until volume two.